miércoles
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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin Mercuriī dīēs, variant of dīēs Mercuriī.
Noun
miércoles m (plural miércoles)
See also
- (days of the week) domingu, llunes, martes, miércoles, xueves, vienres, sábadu (Category: ast:Days of the week)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin diēs Mercurī, with ellipsis of "day", dissimilation of R-L and the ending analogically reshaped after most other days of the week.
Noun
miércoles m (plural miércoles)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Chavacano: miercoles
- → Bikol Central: Myerkoles
- → Cebuano: Miyerkoles
- → Chamorro: metkoles
- → Guerrero Amuzgo: mikluè
- → Hiligaynon: Miyerkoles
- → Ilocano: Mierkoles
- → Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: miexkolex
- → Pangasinan: Mierkoles
- → Tagalog: Miyerkoles, Miyer. — abbreviation, Miyerkules — superseded, pre-2014
- → Taos: míalkulisi
- → Waray-Waray: Miyerkules
Etymology 2
Euphemism for mierda (“shit”).
Interjection
miércoles
- (euphemistic) shoot!
See also
- (days of the week) día de la semana; lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo (Category: es:Days of the week)
Further reading
- “miércoles”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28