week

Significado (English)

1. Any period of seven consecutive days.
2. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
5. A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.

Synonyms

hebdomad

workweek

sennight

Sunday

weekly

calendar week

revolution

revolve

Sabbath

septet

state

vine

worship

religious service

weekly wage

w.

enfeeble

week from Monday

grass

lawn

powerless

province

return

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/wik/

Etimoloxía (English)

Inherited from Middle English: weke

Inherited from Old English: wiċe

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Wiek

Cognate with frisón occidental: wike

Cognate with neerlandés: week

Cognate with alemán: Woche

Cognate with dinamarqués: uge

Cognate with noruegués nynorsk: veke

Cognate with sueco: vecka

Cognate with islandés: vika

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉

Cognate with latín: vicis

Cognate with finés: viikko

Cognate with Old English: wīcan

In summary

From Middle English weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

Frases

Are you sure that Joe case is going on next week ?

I really liked the film we saw last week .

I would give a good review of the new TV I bought a week ago .

I have three essays due in the next week .

That's almost a hundred dollars a week !

The tape is removed after one week and cut into day-length sections .