hebdomas

• ebdomas
• hebdomada

From Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, “seven (noun), a week, a period of seven years”) (genitive ἑβδομάδος (hebdomádos)), from ἕβδομος (hébdomos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈheb.do.mas/, [ˈhɛb.dɔ.mas]

hebdomas f (genitive hebdomadis); third declension

1. the number seven
2. seven days; a week
3. the seventh day

• The usual word for "seven" as a numeral in Latin is septem.
• The word septimāna replaced hebdomas as the word for "week" in Later Latin.

Third declension.

• (a week): septimāna

• hebdomadālis
• hebdomadārius

• Dalmatian: jedma
• Italian: edima
• Old French: domée
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Ladin: ena
  • Romansch: emna, jamna, eanda, eamda, emda, eivna
• → Albanian: javë
• → English: hebdomad
• → French: hebdomadaire
• ⇒ Ecclesiastical Latin: media hebdomas (“middle of the week”)
  • Dalmatian: misedma
  • Italian: mezzedima (archaic)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: mesemna
  • → Old High German: mittawehha (calque)
    • Middle High German: mittewoche, mitwoche
      • Alemannic German: Mittwuch

        Alsatian: Mettwuch

        Italian Walser: mittwuchu, méttwòchò, mittuchu, mettwucchu, méttwucha

      • Bavarian: Midwoch
      • Central Franconian: Mettwoch, Medvoch
      • East Franconian: Middwoch
      • German: Mittwoch
      • Luxembourgish: Mëttwoch
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Pennsylvania German: Mittwoch

      • Vilamovian: mejtwaoch

• hebdomas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hebdomas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hebdomas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette