Days of the week in Spanish:
The etymology of most days of the week are linked to Roman mythology. The Romans used the gods’ names for planets that they were able to track in the sky.
Monday: lunes comes from “luna” or “moon”
Tuesdays: martes, comes from the planet “Mars”
Wednesday: miércoles, comes from the planet “Mercury”
Thursday: jueves, comes from the planet “Jupiter”
Friday: viernes, comes from the planet “Venus”
Saturday, sábado, comes from the planet “Saturn”
Sunday, domingo, comes from the latin word meaning “Lord’s Day”
In Latin, the word, “dies” means “day,” and over time, the word was shortened to just “-es,” thus the days of the week like Monday, which is pronounced “lunes” in Spanish, comes from the combination of the word “luna” for moon and “dies” for day.
Interesting side note: The days of the week are not capitalized in Spanish!
Days of the week song: Sung to the tune of “The Adams Family”
There’s lunes and there’s martes
Miércoles, jueves
Viernes and Sábado
And then there’s Domingo
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