segunda-feira

Signification

Monday (day of the week)

Fréquence

Coupé comme

se‧gun‧da-‧fei‧ra

Genre

♀️ Féminin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/seˌɡũ.dɐˈfe(j).ɾɐ/

Étymologie

From Old Galician-Portuguese segunda feira (“Monday”), from Ecclesiastical Latin secunda fēria (“Monday”, literally “second weekday”). Replaced earlier lues. Compare Galician segunda feira and Mirandese segunda-feira. The loss of the original Latin weekday names is sometimes ascribed to influence from Arabic, in which the days are numbered in a way similar to modern Portuguese. Note however that the same did not happen in Spanish, where Arabic influence was generally stronger.