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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin media hebdomas (literally “half week”), compare Dalmatian misedma, Old High German mittawehha. By surface analysis, mezza + edima.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /medˈd͡zɛ.di.ma/
- Rhymes: -ɛdima
- Hyphenation: mez‧zè‧di‧ma
Noun
mezzedima f (plural mezzedime) (archaic or Tuscan)
- Wednesday
- Synonym: mercoledì
- 1366, an Italian translation of an Arabic diploma from the Maghreb[1]:
فاإِسْكَرِطَ إِمِزِيدِمَ أَلدي ٣٠ دِلْمِيْسِ ادِكُرِيسَمَ إِن دِلَان سَطَ إِسِسَانْطَ أسَّطَ شِنْط- fāʔiskiraṭa ʔimizīdima ʔaldī 30 dilmīsi ʔədikurīsama ʔin dilān saṭa ʔisisānṭa ʔassaṭa šinṭ
- /fu scritta mezzedima al dì 30 del mese di quaresima in dell'anno sette e sessanta e settecento/
- It was written on Wednesday, the day 30 of the month of Ramadan in the year seven hundred and sixty-seven.
References
- ^ Amari, Michele (1863) I diplomi arabi del R. Archivio Fiorentino (in Italian), Firenze: Le Monnier, text 33, page 122