décadi

See also: decadi

English edit

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decadi

Etymology edit

From French décadi.

Noun edit

décadi (plural décadis)

(now historical) The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest. [from 18th c.]
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 59:
  [T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.

French edit

Etymology edit

From déca- (“deca-, ten”) +‎ -di (“day”), taken from the ordinary weekday names: lundi (“Monday”), mardi (“Tuesday”), mercredi (“Wednesday”), jeudi (“Thursday”), vendredi (“Friday”), samedi (“Saturday”).