Friday: [OE] Friday was named for Frigg, in Scandinavian mythology the wife of Odin and goddess of married love and of the hearth (Frigg, or in Old English Frīg, is thought to have come from prehistoric Germanic *frijaz ‘noble’, source of English free). ‘Frigg’s day’ was a direct adaptation of Latin Veneris dies ‘Venus’s day’ (whence French vendredi ‘Friday’), which in turn was based on Greek Aphrodítēs hēméra ‘Aphrodite’s day’. => free
Friday (n.)
sixth day of the week, Old English friged?g "Friday, Frigga's day," from Frige, genitive of *Frigu (see Frigg), Germanic goddess of married love. The day name is a West Germanic translation of Latin dies Veneris "day of (the planet) Venus," which itself translated Greek Aphrodites hemera.
Compare Old Norse frijadagr, Old Frisian frigendei, Middle Dutch vridach, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag "Friday," and the Latin-derived cognates Old French vendresdi, French vendredi, Spanish viernes. In Germanic religion, Freya (q.v.) corresponds more closely in character to Venus than Frigg does, and some early Icelandic writers used Freyjudagr for "Friday."
A fast-day in the Church, hence Friday face (17c.) for a gloomy countenance. Black Friday as the name for the busy shopping day after U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is said to date from 1960s and perhaps was coined by those who had the job of controlling the crowds, not by the merchants; earlier it was used principally of Fridays when financial markets crashed (1866, 1869, 1873).
雙語例句
1. I shall be 26 years old on Friday next.
下周五我就26歲了.
來自柯林斯例句
2. He fled on Friday, saying he feared for his life.
他星期五逃走了，說是擔(dān)心自己有生命危險。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.
除非受惡劣天氣干擾，南非郵船一般在星期五上午抵達(dá)。
來自柯林斯例句
4. By Friday at 5:30 p.m., I still hadn't heard from Lund.
直到周五下午5點(diǎn)半，我仍未收到倫德的消息。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Mr Cook is intending to go to the Middle East on Friday.