setmana

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan setmana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), derived from septimus (“seventh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səmˈma.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈma.na]

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Noun

setmana f (plural setmanes)

1. week

Derived terms

• cap de setmana
• setmanada
• setmanal
• setmanari
• setmaner
• setmania

See also

• (days of the week) dia de la setmana; dilluns, dimarts, dimecres, dijous, divendres, dissabte, diumenge ^{(Category: ca:Days of the week)}

References

• “setmana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “setmana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “setmana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “setmana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• semmana (Gascony)

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from the Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), derived from septimus (“seventh”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

setmana f (plural setmanas)

1. week

Derived terms

• setmanari, setmanèr, setmanièr

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 124.

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• semana, sedmana, sethmana

Etymology

From Late Latin septimānam, singular accusative of septimāna, from the Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), derived from septimus (“seventh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /setˈmana/, /semˈmana/?

Noun

setmana f (plural setmanas)

1. week
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 69v. col. 1.

     enforteçra firmanento a los mayores una ſetmana e en la media ſetmana faldra la oſtia.

     he will enforce a covenant with many for a week, but in the middle of the week the oblation will cease.

Related terms

• siete

Descendants

• Ladino: semana
• Spanish: semana