Monday的词源

英文词源

Monday

Monday: [OE] Etymologically, Monday is the ‘moon’s day’. It comes from a prehistoric German translation of Latin lūnae diēs ‘day of the moon’, which also produced German montag, Dutch maandag, Swedish måandag, and Danish mandag. In the Romance languages, the Latin term has become French lundi, Italian lunedì, Spanish lunes, and Romanian luni. (The various words for ‘Monday’ in the Slavic languages, incidentally, such as Russian ponedel’nik, mean basically ‘after Sunday’.)
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Monday (n.)

second day of the week, Old English mondæg, monandæg "Monday," literally "day of the moon," from mona (genitive monan; see moon (n.)) + dæg (see day). Common Germanic (Old Norse manandagr, Old Frisian monendei, Dutch maandag, German Montag) loan-translation of Late Latin Lunæ dies, source of the day name in Romance languages (French lundi, Italian lunedi, Spanish lunes), itself a loan-translation of Greek selenes hemera. The name for this day in Slavic tongues generally means "day after Sunday."

Phrase Monday morning quarterback is attested from 1932, Monday being the first day back at work after the weekend, when school and college football games were played. Black Monday (mid-14c.) is the Monday after Easter day, though how it got its reputation for bad luck is a mystery. Saint Monday (1753) was "used with reference to the practice among workmen of being idle Monday, as a consequence of drunkenness on the Sunday" before [OED]. Clergymen, meanwhile, when indisposed complained of feeling Mondayish (1804) in reference to effects of Sunday's labors.

中文词源

Monday（星期一）：献给月亮的日子

古代希腊人崇拜太阳和月亮，将一星期的第一天（星期日）献给太阳后，他们将第二天（星期一）献给了月亮，命名为selenes hemera。古罗马人继承了古希腊人的传统，将星期一称为Lunæ dies。到了英语中就变成了monandæg，后来又演变为现代英语Monday，意思就是“月亮日”。

Monday：['mʌndeɪ] n.星期一，礼拜一

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Monday：星期一

来自古英语mondaeg,即moon day,月亮日。比较sunday.

Monday：星期一

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Monday 星期一

在古罗马神话中月亮为太阳之妻，因此在星期一中也必须有一天是献给月亮的。他们把星期一的第二天叫做lunae dies，安格鲁撒克逊人借译了该词，作Monandaeg,意即moon day,现代英语作Monday。德语Montag,荷兰语maandag,西班牙语lunes,法语lundi等均源于该拉丁词。

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Monday：星期一

来源于拉丁语dies lunae(月亮日)