How do you pronounce saturday?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/.

Where does saturday come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

saturday

/ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English

Syllables: Sat-ur-day
IPA: /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/

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Meaning

noun

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.

adv

On Saturday.

Canadian usage; American usage; Informal

verb

To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *dʰegʷʰ-, Saterday, sæterdæġ, *Sāturnas dag, diēs Saturnī

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/
British English: /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

Saturdays (plural) Saturdays (present, singular) Saturdaying (participle, present) Saturdayed (participle, past) Saturdayed (past)

Derived Forms

Fraturday Saturdaily Saturdaying Saturdayish Saturdayite Saturdayness Saturdays splatterday

Phrases

first Saturday devotions Saturday closing Saturday-morning cartoon Saturday-night Saturday-night pistol Saturday-night special Saturday penny Saturday pops

Synonyms

Seventh Day Sat Sat. sabbatum