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Wednesday (, ,〔''Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'', ed. 10〕 or archaically ) is the day of the week following Tuesday and before Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 adopted in most western countries it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ''Sunday-first'' convention Wednesday is defined as the fourth day of the week. It is the fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar as well, and was defined so in the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical calendars. The name is derived from Old English ''Wōdnesdæg'' and Middle English ''Wednesdei'', "day of Woden", ultimately a calque of ''dies Mercurii'' "day of Mercury". Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday. ==Etymology== :''See Week-day names for more on naming conventions.'' The name Wednesday continues Middle English ''Wednesdei''. Old English still had ''wōdnesdæg'', which would be continued as '' *Wodnesday'' (but Old Frisian has an attested ''wednesdei''). By the early 13th century, the ''i''-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin ''dies Mercurii'' "day of Mercury", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as "Germanic Mercury". The Latin name dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century. It is a calque of Greek , a term first attested, together with the system of naming the seven weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the ''Anthologiarum'' by Vettius Valens (ca. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name in Romance languages: ''Mércuris'' (Sardinian), ''mercredi'' (French), ''mercoledì'' (Italian), ''miércoles'' (Spanish), ''miercuri'' (Romanian), ''dimecres'' (Catalan), ''Marcuri'' or ''Mercuri'' (Corsican), ''dies Mercurii'' (Latin). The German name for the day, ''Mittwoch'' (literally: "mid-week"), replaced the former name ''Wodenstag'' ("Wodan's day") in the tenth century. The Dutch name for the day, ''woensdag'' has the same etymology as English ''Wednesday'', it comes from Middle Dutch ''wodenesdag, woedensdag'' ("Wodan's day"). Most Slavic languages follow this pattern and use derivations of "the middle" (Bulgarian сряда ''sryada'', Croatian ''srijeda'', Czech ''středa'', Macedonian среда ''sreda'', Polish ''środa'', Russian среда ''sredá'', Serbian среда/''sreda'' or cриједа/''srijeda'', Slovak ''streda'', Slovene ''sreda'', Ukrainian середа ''sereda''). The Finnish name is ''Keskiviikko'' ("middle of the week"), as is the Icelandic name: ''Miðvikudagur'', and the Faroese name: ''Mikudagur'' ("Mid-week day"). Some dialects of Faroese have ''Ónsdagur'', though, which shares etymology with Wednesday. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Onsdag, ("Ons-dag" = Oden's/Odin's dag/day). In Welsh it is Dydd Mercher, meaning Mercury's Day. In Japanese, the word Wednesday is 水曜日(sui youbi), meaning 'water day' and is associated with 水星 (suisei): Mercury (the planet), literally meaning "water star". Similarly, in Korean the word Wednesday is 수요일 (su yo il), also meaning water day. In most of the languages of India, the word for Wednesday is Budhavãra—vãra meaning day and Budh being the planet Mercury. From Armenian (Չորեքշաբթի—chorekshabti), Georgian (ოთხშაბათი—othshabati), and Tajik (Chorshanbiyev) languages the word literally means as "four (days) from Saturday". Portuguese uses the word ''quarta-feira'', meaning "fourth day", while in Greek the word is ''Tetarti'' (Τετάρτη) meaning simply "fourth". Similarly, Arabic أربعاء means "fourth", Hebrew רביעי means "fourth", and Persian چهارشنبه means "fourth day". Yet the name for the day in Estonian ''kolmapäev'', Lithuanian ''trečiadienis'', and Latvian ''trešdiena'' means "third day" while in Mandarin Chinese 星期三 (''xīngqīsān''), means "day three", as Sunday is unnumbered. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wednesday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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