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Names of the days of the week

Index Names of the days of the week

The names of the days of the week in many languages are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astrology, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. [1]

61 relations: AD 60, Anglo-Saxon paganism, Budha, Calendar (stationery), Classical planet, Colors of the day in Thailand, Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish, Cyclic order, Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron, Date and time notation in Asia, Determination of the day of the week, Dominical letter, Dow, Election day, Firmament, Folklore of the Low Countries, Frid, Germanic calendar, Hindu calendar, History of calendars, Index mapping, Interpretatio graeca, ISO week date, Javanese calendar, Jupiter (mythology), Latin Psalters, Leap year, Letter case, Licht, Monday, Morning Coffee (Firefox add-on), Moveable feast, Mythology in the Low Countries, Nicholas Bownde, Nundinae, Odd–even rationing, Odin, Ordinal linguistic personification, Perpetual calendar, Planet, Planetary hours, S.C.I.F.I. World, Sabbath, Saturday, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seventh-day Adventist Telugu work: Malaysia, Soma (deity), Sun, Tachileik, Thai calendar, ..., The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World, Thuner, Thursday, Transitive closure, Tuesday, Wednesday, Week, Workweek and weekend, Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative, 5, 7. Expand index (11 more) »

AD 60

AD 60 (LX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Anglo-Saxon paganism

Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, or Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.

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Budha

Budha graha (बुध) is a Sanskrit word that connotes the planet Mercury.

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Calendar (stationery)

A calendar is used to display dates and related information, usually in a table format.

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Classical planet

In classical antiquity, the seven classical planets are the seven non-fixed astronomical objects in the sky visible to the naked eye: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon.

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Colors of the day in Thailand

According to ancient customs in Thailand, there is an astrological rule (which has influence from Hindu mythology) that assigns a color to each day of the week based on the color of the God who protects the day or Navagraha.

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Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish

Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related sister languages, differ in many details of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon.

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Cyclic order

In mathematics, a cyclic order is a way to arrange a set of objects in a circle.

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Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a woman carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week.

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Date and time notation in Asia

In the Post-Soviet states DD.MM.YYYY format is used with dot as a separator.

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Determination of the day of the week

The determination of the day of the week for any date may be performed with a variety of algorithms.

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Dominical letter

Dominical letters or Sunday letters are a method used to determine the day of the week for particular dates.

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Dow

Dow, or the acronym DOW, may refer to.

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Election day

Election day refers to the day when general elections are held.

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Firmament

In Biblical cosmology, the firmament is the structure above the atmosphere of Earth, conceived as a vast solid dome.

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Folklore of the Low Countries

Folklore of the Low Countries, often just referred to as Dutch folklore, includes the epics, legends, fairy tales and oral traditions of the people of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

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Frid

Frid is a Scandinavian (Norse) surname, derived from the name of the god Frey (Freyr) - same derivation as the day of the week (Tuesday -Tws Norse god of the sea, Wednesday -Wodin/Odin father of the gods, Thursday - Thor's day and Fri day - Freyr) (Names of the days of the week).

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Germanic calendar

The Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used amongst the early Germanic peoples, prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar in the Early Middle Ages.

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Hindu calendar

Hindu calendar is a collective term for the various lunisolar calendars traditionally used in India.

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History of calendars

The history of calendars, that is, of people creating and using methods for keeping track of days and larger divisions of time, covers a practice with very ancient roots.

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Index mapping

Index mapping (or direct addressing, or a trivial hash function) in computer science describes using an array, in which each position corresponds to a key in the universe of possible values.

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Interpretatio graeca

Interpretatio graeca (Latin, "Greek translation" or "interpretation by means of Greek ") is a discourse in which ancient Greek religious concepts and practices, deities, and myths are used to interpret or attempt to understand the mythology and religion of other cultures.

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ISO week date

The ISO week date system is effectively a leap week calendar system that is part of the ISO 8601 date and time standard issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) since 1988 (last revised in 2004) and, before that, it was defined in ISO (R) 2015 since 1971.

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Javanese calendar

The Javanese calendar (Pananggalan Jawa) is the calendar of the Javanese people.

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Jupiter (mythology)

Jupiter (from Iūpiter or Iuppiter, *djous “day, sky” + *patēr “father," thus "heavenly father"), also known as Jove gen.

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Latin Psalters

Ramsey Psalter, start of Psalm 101/2, "Domine exaudi orationem meam et clamor meus ad te veniat..." The Latin Psalters are the translations of the Book of Psalms into the Latin language.

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Leap year

A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year.

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Letter case

Letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule) and smaller lower case (also lowercase, small letters, or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

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Licht

Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003.

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Monday

Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday.

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Morning Coffee (Firefox add-on)

Morning Coffee is a discontinued Firefox addon that assists its Firefox user in opening daily routine websites.

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Moveable feast

A moveable feast or movable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar that occurs on a different date (relative to the dominant civil or solar calendar) in different years.

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Mythology in the Low Countries

The mythology of the modern-day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg has its roots in the mythologies of pre-Christian (e.g. Gaulish (Gallo-Roman) and Germanic) cultures, predating the region's Christianization under the auspices of the Franks in the Early Middle Ages.

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Nicholas Bownde

Nicholas Bownde, Bownd or Bound (died 1613) was an English clergyman, known for his Christian Sabbatarian writings.

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Nundinae

The nundinae, sometimes anglicized to nundines,.

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Odd–even rationing

Odd–even rationing is a method of rationing in which access to some resource is restricted to half the population on any given day.

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Odin

In Germanic mythology, Odin (from Óðinn /ˈoːðinː/) is a widely revered god.

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Ordinal linguistic personification

Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP, or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities and/or genders.

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Perpetual calendar

A perpetual calendar is a calendar valid for many years, usually designed to allow the calculation of the day of the week for a given date in the future.

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Planet

A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

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Planetary hours

The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day.

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S.C.I.F.I. World

S.C.I.F.I. World was a daytime programming schedule for the Sci Fi Channel that started on July 17, 2000 and ended on December 21, 2001.

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Sabbath

Sabbath is a day set aside for rest and worship.

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Saturday

Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Seventh-day Adventist Telugu work: Malaysia

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Soma (deity)

Soma (सोम) connotes the Moon as well as a medicinal deity in post-Vedic Hindu mythology.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Tachileik

Tachileik (တာချီလိတ်မြို့; also spelt Tachilek; ท่าขี้เหล็ก), is a border town in the Shan State of eastern Myanmar.

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Thai calendar

In Thailand, two main calendar systems are used alongside each other: the Thai solar calendar, based on the Gregorian calendar, used for official and most day-to-day purposes, and the Thai lunar calendar (a version of the Buddhist calendar, technically a lunisolar calendar), used for traditional events and Buddhist religious practices.

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The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World

"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip José Farmer, first published in 1971 in New Dimensions 1: Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories. The story later formed the basis for Farmer's Dayworld trilogy of novels.

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Thuner

Thuner is an imposing limestone figure carved by John Michael Rysbrack (1693-1770).

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Thursday

Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday.

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Transitive closure

In mathematics, the transitive closure of a binary relation R on a set X is the smallest relation on X that contains R and is transitive.

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Tuesday

Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday.

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Wednesday

Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday.

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Week

A week is a time unit equal to seven days.

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Workweek and weekend

The workweek and weekend are those complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively.

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Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative

The Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (YTCC) was formed in the United States in 1998 to address the gap in knowledge about what cessation strategies are most effective in assisting youth to quit smoking.

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5

5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph.

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7

7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week

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