Saturdayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Saterday, from 古期英語 sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).

発音

• enPR: săʹtər-dā, săʹtər-di
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæt.ə.di/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.deɪ̯], /ˈsæt.ɚ.di/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.di]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsæt.ə.dæɪ/
• (Singapore) IPA: /ˈsɑːt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæ-/
• ハイフネーション: Sat‧ur‧day
• 韻: -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ

名詞

Saturday (plural Saturdays)

1. The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Seventh Day

   • 2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business‎:

     The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.

   • 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN‎:

     Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.

同意語

• Sat, Sat. (abbreviations)

略号s

• S, Sa
• ♄ (archaic)

上位語

• day

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: Sarere

副詞

Saturday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Saturday.

動詞

Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)

1. (uncommon, creative) To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
   • 1913, Bell Telephone News‎, volume 3, page 5:

     Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.

参考

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday