samedi

From Old French samedi, from Vulgar Latin *sambatum and *sambati dies, from Latin Sabbatī diēs, variant of diēs Sabbatī (“day of the Sabbath”), from sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton) (Modern Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato)), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabát). See also sabbat, chabbat.

• IPA^(key): /sam.di/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: samedis

samedi m (plural samedis)

1. Saturday
   • 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

     ...Jeudi de l’accordéon, de l’accordéon.
     Vendredi et samedi chantent la chanson de dimanche...
     En avant, la musique des jours de la semaine.

     ...Thursday the accordion, the accordion.
     Friday and Saturday sing the song of Sunday...
     Onward, the music of the days of the week.

• Haitian Creole: samdi
• Mauritian Creole: samdi
• → Franco-Provençal: samedi

• (days of the week) jours de la semaine; lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche ^{(Category: fr:Days of the week)}

• “samedi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• admise, médias

• Sanm'di (Jersey)
• sammedi (continental Norman)
• somedi (Guernsey)
• samdi (Sark)

From Old French samedi, from Vulgar Latin *sambati diēs, from Latin Sabbati diēs < diēs Sabbati (“day of the Sabbath”).

samedi m (plural samedis)

1. (Guernsey) Saturday

From Vulgar Latin *sambatum and Vulgar Latin *sambati diēs, from Latin Sabbati diēs < diēs Sabbati (“day of the Sabbath”).

samedi m (oblique plural samedis, nominative singular samedis, nominative plural samedi)

1. Saturday

• Middle French: samedi
  • French: samedi
    • Haitian Creole: samdi
    • Mauritian Creole: samdi
    • → Franco-Provençal: samedi
• Gallo: samdi
• Norman: samedi, samdi, Sanm'de, sammedi, somedi
• Walloon: semdi