hebdomada

See also: hebdómada

Latin

Alternative forms

• ebdomada

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, “the number seven”) (genitive ἑβδομάδος (hebdomádos)), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”).

Noun

hebdomada f (genitive hebdomadae); first declension

1. the number seven
2. a group of seven things
3. a week (from one Sabbath to the next)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hebdomada	hebdomadae
genitive	hebdomadae	hebdomadārum
dative	hebdomadae	hebdomadīs
accusative	hebdomadam	hebdomadās
ablative	hebdomadā	hebdomadīs
vocative	hebdomada	hebdomadae

Descendants

See also hebdomas.

• Asturian: domada
• Old French: domée
• Old Galician-Portuguese: domaa
  • Galician: domá
• Old Italian: domada
• Piedmontese: demuda

References

• “hebdomada”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hebdomada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hebdomada in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hebdomas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 395
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “hebdomada”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 302