Tuesday

For other uses, see Tuesday (disambiguation).

rives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyTuesday (/tjuzde/, /tjuzdi/, /tuzde/ or /tuzdi/) is , *ddy-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such
words as "deity".[4]
The Latin name dies Martis (day of Mars) is equivalent to the Greek . In most languages with
Latin origins (Italian,[5] French,[6] Spanish,[7] Catalan,[8]
Romanian,[9] Galician,[10] Sardinian,[11] Corsican,[12] but
not Portuguese[13] ), the day is named after Mars, the
Ancient Greek Ares .
In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated
from Old Church Slavonic word meaning "the
second" (Serbian: (utorak)). Bulgarian and Russian "" (Vtornik) is derived from the Bulgarian
and Russian adjective for 'Second' - "" (Vtori) or
"" (Vtoroi)
In Japanese, the word Tuesday is
(ka youbi), meaning 're day' and is associated with
(kasei): Mars (the
planet), literally meaning re star. Similarly, in Korean
the word Tuesday is
(hwa yo il), also meaning re
day.
In the Indo-Aryan languages Pali and Sanskrit the name
of the day is taken from Angaraka ('one who is red in
colour')[14] a style (manner of address) for Mangal, the
god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.
In the Nahuatl language, Tuesday is Hutzilpcht

nal (Nahuatl pronunciation: [witsilopot

tona])
meaning
The god Tr or Tiw, identied with Mars, after whom Tuesday day of Huitzilopochtli".
is named.

a day of the week occurring after Monday and before

Wednesday. According to some commonly used calendars (esp. in the US), it is the third day of the week.
According to international standard ISO 8601, however,
it is the second day of the week. The English name
is derived from Old English Tiwesdg and Middle English Tewesday, meaning Tws Day, the day of Tiw or
Tr, the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory
in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the
interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a
translation of Latin dies Martis.

2 Religious observances

3 Cultural references

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The Octoechos contains
hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle,
that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year. At the
end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal begins
with the words: May Christ our True God, through the
intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable
and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John"

Etymology

In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of

the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day.
The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world. For
both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month

The name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdg and literally means Tiws Day.[1] Tiw is the
Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Twaz,
or Tr in Norse, a god of war and law.[2][3] *Twaz de1

is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of

Friday. In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in the rst chapter of Genesis the paragraph about this day contains the
phrase it was good twice.

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Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold

their presidential primary elections.

7 References

In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali
word for the planet Mars, which also means Ashes of the Notes
Dead";[15] the color associated with Tuesday is pink.
In the folk rhyme Mondays Child, Tuesdays child is full
of grace.

[1] Tuesday. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 31

August 2010.
[2] TIWAZ - The Warriors Rune. Oswald the Runemaker.
Retrieved 31 August 2010.

Astrology

Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars and shares that

planets symbol, . As Mars rules over Aries and Scorpio,
these signs are also associated with Tuesday.

[3] Stuart Alan. Tiw (Tyr)". Anglo-Saxon Heathenism. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
[4] Klein, E., deity and Tuesday, Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Elsevier Publishing, 1966), pp. 4178 & 1662.
[5] Marted

Common occurrences

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United States

[6] Mardi
[7] Martes
[8] Dimarts
[9] Mari

Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States.

Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the rst
Monday in November; this date was established by a law
of 1845 for presidential elections (specically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to
elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and
for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of
the week which was practical for polling in the early 19th
century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day
to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority
of them. However, political scientists today suggest that
moving elections to a day such as Sunday might increase
voter turnout, as the employed would have an easier time
voting.

Named days
Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to Tuesday, October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black
Thursday.
Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month
when Microsoft releases patches for their products. Some system administrators call this day Black
Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras fat Tuesday) precedes the rst day of Lent in the Western
Christian calendar.

[10] Martes
[11] Martis
[12] Marti
[13] Tera-feira
[14] Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1962). agraka 126. A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London:
Oxford University Press. Digital Dictionaries of South
Asia, University of Chicago. p. 7. Retrieved 21 February
2010. 126 agraka 1. Pali 'red like charcoal'; Sanskrit
ar. (speculative) 2. Pali agraka masculine 'Mars;
Sanskrit aro masculine 'Tuesday'. line feed character in
|work= at position 54 (help)
[15] " angM khaanM. Thai-language.com. Retrieved
31 August 2010.

Sources
Grimm, Jacob. 187578. Deutsche Mythologie.
Fourth ed., curated by Elard Hugo Meyer, 3 vols.
Berlin: F. Dmmler. Reprinted Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.

8 External links
Media related to Tuesday at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations related to Tuesday at Wikiquote
The dictionary denition of Tuesday at Wiktionary

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