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WEEK
hebdomas (the space of seven days in which anything happens; e.g. before the critical day of a fever Varr. ap. Gell. septima hebdomade id est nono et quadragesimo die etc.: it is now generally used as a technical term). Perhaps we may say septimana (Cod. Theod.) or spatium septem dierum (the Romans did not reckon time by weeks). Week by week per singulas hebdomadas: to take a walk once a week singulis hebdomadibus semel deambulatum exire: week-days dies profesti (opposed to dies fasti; Plaut. Plin.); dies negotiosi (opposed to dies sacri Tac. Ann. 13 41): week-day dress vestis quotidiana: a week’s wages merces in singulas hebdomadas solvenda.
hebdomas (the space of seven days in which anything happens; e.g. before the critical day of a fever Varr. ap. Gell. septima hebdomade id est nono et quadragesimo die etc.: it is now generally used as a technical term). Perhaps we may say septimana (Cod. Theod.) or spatium septem dierum (the Romans did not reckon time by weeks). Week by week per singulas hebdomadas: to take a walk once a week singulis hebdomadibus semel deambulatum exire: week-days dies profesti (opposed to dies fasti; Plaut. Plin.); dies negotiosi (opposed to dies sacri Tac. Ann. 13 41): week-day dress vestis quotidiana: a week’s wages merces in singulas hebdomadas solvenda.
week:
1. hebdŏmas, ădis, f. (Cic. uses it of the critical seventh day in diseases, Fam. 16, 9; Gellius speaks of the "hebdomades lunae," the moon's quarters: the Romans did not reckon time by weeks).
2. septĭmāna: Cod. Theod. Or expr. by septem dies, septem dierum spatium. Phr.: w. days and holidays, dies profesti fastique (cf. Liv. 34, 3): on w. days and holidays (common and sacred days), profestis lucibus et sacris, Hor. Od. 4, 15, 25: cf. sacri et negotiosi dies, Tac. A. 14, 41: w. day dress, *vestis quotidiana (Kr.).
1. hebdŏmas, ădis, f. (Cic. uses it of the critical seventh day in diseases, Fam. 16, 9; Gellius speaks of the "hebdomades lunae," the moon's quarters: the Romans did not reckon time by weeks).
2. septĭmāna: Cod. Theod. Or expr. by septem dies, septem dierum spatium. Phr.: w. days and holidays, dies profesti fastique (cf. Liv. 34, 3): on w. days and holidays (common and sacred days), profestis lucibus et sacris, Hor. Od. 4, 15, 25: cf. sacri et negotiosi dies, Tac. A. 14, 41: w. day dress, *vestis quotidiana (Kr.).
Week
The Greeks originally divided their month into three parts of ten days each, and the Romans had a sort of week of eight days—between the nundinae or market-days. (See nundinae.) The Egyptians, however, like the Jews, had a week of seven days, named from the seven planets, and from Alexandria this seven-day week (ἑβδομάς, hebdomas, septimana) spread to Greece, and, at about the beginning of the Christian era, to Rome also. In the Codex Theodosianus (q.v.) the name septimana first appears in the sense of “week,” and from it came the Italian settimana, the Spanish semana, and the French semaine.