Fridays

How to spell fridays

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce fridays

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does fridays mean?

1. nounMore than one Friday, the day of the week that falls between Thursday and Saturday.

Fridays in a sentence

• The office closes early on most fridays during the summer.

• She teaches an evening class on alternate fridays.

Where does fridays come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

Friday comes from the Old English Frīgedæg, which literally meant 'the day of Frigg', Frigg being the Norse and Germanic goddess associated with love, marriage and the household. The name was a translation of the Latin dies Veneris, 'day of Venus', as the early Germanic peoples matched their own gods to the Roman planetary days; Venus, the goddess of love, was paired with Frigg. The middle element, day, descends from the Old English dæg, a common Germanic word for the period of daylight. The plural simply adds the regular English -s ending to give 'fridays' when speaking of the recurring weekday. The spelling keeps the single 'd' and the 'i' from the original goddess's name, which is why writers must resist the urge to double letters or insert an extra vowel.

How the word is built

• Frige- (the goddess Frigg)
• day (from Old English dæg)
• -s (plural)