Wednesday

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Mercury and Paris, oil of Donato Creti (1745).

Wednesday is the third day of the week according to the Gregorian calendar and the ISO 8601 standard (Monday being the first), and the fourth for new cultures that consider Sunday the first day of the week. It is located between Tuesday and Thursday. The name "Wednesday" comes from the Latin Mercurii dies, or "Day of Mercury."

Etymology

These are some of the names that Wednesday receives in different languages:

Language	Name	Etymology
Spanish Catalan French Galician Italian Latin Romanian Tag	Wednesday dimecres mercredi mércores mercoledì dies mercurii miercuri Miyerkules	Mercury Day/ Damocles Day
English Dutch Swedish Danish	Wednesday Woensdag Onsdag Onsdag	Day of Odin (Woden)
Japanese Korean	Русский(suiyōbi) ▪(suyoil)	water day
Portuguese ecclesiastical Latin Arabic Hebrew Modern Greek Persian Turkish	quarta-feira fair quarta الأربعاء (al-arbi‛ā') אה ה ה(Yom Revi'i) Τετάρτη ›هارشنبه (čehāršanbé) çarşamba	4th day of the week
Chinese Estonia Latvian Lithuanian	Русский (xīng qī sān) kolmapäev Trešdiena trečiadienis	third day of the week
Quechua	quyllurchaw	Star Day
euskera	asteazkena, eguaztena	last day of the week
German Finnish Polish Russian Slovak Slovenian Czech Ukrainian Hungarian Iceland	Mittwoch keskiviikko środa Среда (sredá) strew sreda středa Середа (sing) szerda miðvikudagur	central day of the week

Abbreviations for days of the week

In Spain, Argentina and other countries, Wednesday's abbreviation is usually Xto not be confused with Tuesday (which gives us LMXJVSD instead of LMMJVSD). According to one of many theories, it is used thus by the influence of Alfonso X the Sabio in the orthographic normalization and the translation of manuscripts with abundant abbreviations.
In Costa Rica and Puerto Rico the code is used K for Tuesday, to distinguish it from the M of Wednesday.

Other data

According to an ancient custom of the Catholic Church, this day is dedicated to honoring Saint Joseph of Nazareth, the husband of the Virgin Mary.

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