# dies Dominicus
## Latin

Days of the week :
| Previous: | diēs Sabbatī, diēs Sāturnī |
| Next: | diēs Lūnae |

### Alternative forms

* diēs Dominica f
* Dominicus diēs, Dominica diēs

### Etymology

From diēs m or f (“day”) +‎ dominicus (“of the Lord”).
Found from about AD 200 onwards as a Christian replacement for the pagan diēs Sōlis (since that was named in honour of the sun-god Sol).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdi.eːs doˈmi.ni.kus/, [ˈd̪ieːs̠ d̪ɔˈmɪnɪkʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdi.es doˈmi.ni.kus/, [ˈd̪iːes d̪oˈmiːnikus]

### Noun

diēs Dominicus m (genitive diēī Dominicī); fifth declension (Late Latin)
* Sunday
** late 4th c. CE, Egeria, Peregrinatio ad loca sancta 2.25:Cum luce autem, quia dominica dies est, et proceditur in ecclesia maiore, quam fecit Constantinus, quae ecclesia in Golgotha est post Crucem, et fiunt omnia secundum consuetudinem, qua et ubique fit die dominica.At dawn, however, as it is Sunday, the people go to the greater church built by Constantine, located in Golgotha behind the Cross. They carry out everything that is usual everywhere on Sunday.

#### Declension

Fifth-declension noun with a second-declension adjective.

#### Coordinate terms

* diēs hebdomadis
* diēs Sōlis
* diēs Lūnae, fēria secunda
* diēs Mārtis, fēria tertia
* diēs Mercuriī, fēria quārta
* diēs Iovis, fēria quīnta
* diēs Veneris, fēria sexta
* diēs Sāturnī, diēs Sabbatī, sabbatum

#### Descendants

* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: diumenge
** Old French: diemenche (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: dimenge
* Borrowings:
** → Old Irish: día Domnaig
*** Irish: Dé Domhnaigh
*** Manx: Jedoonee
*** Scottish Gaelic: Didòmhnaich
* Calques:
** → Chinese: 主日 (zhǔrì)
** → English: Lord's Day
** → Old Norse: drôttinsdagr
** → Old High German: frôntag
** → Vietnamese: Chủ nhật
Reflexes of a shortened *dominicus:
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: domingu
** Leonese: domingu
** Mirandese: demingo
** Old Galician-Portuguese: domingo (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: domingo (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Old Irish: domnach
*** Middle Irish: domnach
**** Irish: Domhnach
**** Manx: Doonaght
**** Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnach
Reflexes of a shortened *dominica (from the variant diēs Dominica):
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: Dumãnicã
** Romanian: duminică
* Dalmatian:
** domienca
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: dumenica
** Italian: domenica (see there for further descendants)
** Neapolitan: dumeneca
** Sicilian: dumìnica
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: demenge, demenche
* North Italian:
** Emilian: dmanga, admanga, dmenga
** Friulian: domenie
** Ladin: domenia
** Ligurian: doménega, dunmegna
** Lombard: dumenega, domenga, dmenga, menga
** Piedmontese: dmegna
** Emilian: dmanga, dmenga
** Romansch: dumengia
** Venetan: doménega
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: domìniga
* Borrowings:
** → Basque: domeka

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 335: “domenica” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “domĭnicus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 129