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Other uses Tuesday (IPAc-en|audio=En-us-Tuesday.ogg|'|tj|u?|z|d|e?, IPAc-en|'|tj|u?|z|d|i, /'tu?zde?/ or /'tu?zdi/) is a Week-day names|day of the week occurring after Monday and before Wednesday . According to international standard ISO 8601 , it is the second day of the week, although in some traditions it is the third.
The English name is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday, meaning "Tiw's Day", the day of Tiw or Týr , the god of single combat , victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology . Tiw was equated with Mars (mythology)|Mars in the interpretatio romana , and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis .
Etymology
The Latin name dies Martis ("day of Mars" is a translation of the Greek language|Greek ?µ??a ??e??). The weekday heptagram , i.e. the association of the days of the seven-day week with the seven classical planets , probably dates to the Hellenistic period ."It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this heptagram was created." http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/29/2916.html Symbol 29:16 Between the 1st and 3rd centuries, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight day Roman Roman calendar#Nundinal cycle|nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The astrological order of the days was explained by Vettius Valens and Dio Cassius . According to these authors, it was a principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours of the day.
The name Tuesday derives from the Old English "Tiwesdæg" and literally means "Tiw's Day".cite web |url= http://www.etymonline.com/index.php? term=Tuesday |title=Tuesday |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary |accessdate=31 August 2010 Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Norse, a god of war and law.cite web |url= http://www.runemaker.com/futhark/tiwaz.shtml |title=TIWAZ - The Warrior's Rune |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Oswald the Runemaker |accessdate=31 August 2010cite web |url= http://www.freefolk.org/gods/tiw.html |title=Tiw (Tyr) |author=Stuart Alan |date= |work= |publisher=Anglo-Saxon Heathenism |accessdate=12 July 2011
In most languages with Latin origins ( French language|French , Spanish language|Spanish , Catalan language|Catalan , Italian language|Italian , Romanian language|Romanian , Galician language|Gallician , Sardinian language|Sardinian , Corsican language|Corsican , but not Portuguese language|Portuguese ), the day is named after Mars (mythology)|Mars , the Ancient Rome|Roman god of war .
In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word ?????? meaning " the second " (Serbian: ?????? ( utorak )). Russian "???????" (Vtornik) is derived from the Russian adjective for 'Second' - "??????" (Vtoroi)
In Japanese language|Japanese , the word Tuesday is ???(ka youbi), meaning 'fire day' and is associated with ?? (kasei): Mars.
In the Indic languages of Pali and Sanskrit , as well as in Thai solar calendar|Thailand , the name of the day is taken from Angaraka ('one who is red in colour')cite web |url= http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/contextualize.pl? p.0.soas.82184 |title= a?garaka 126 |accessdate= 21 February 2010 |last= Turner |first= Sir Ralph Lilley |authorlink= Ralph Lilley Turner |year= 1962 |work= A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London: Oxford University Press |publisher= Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago |page= 7 |quote= 126 a?garaka 1. Pali 'red like charcoal'; Sanskrit a?ari. 2. Pali a?garaka masculine 'Mars'; Sanskrit a?aro masculine 'Tuesday'. a style (manner of address) for Mars (mythology)|Mangal , the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.
Religious observances
In the Eastern Orthodox Church , Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist . The Octoechos (liturgy)|Octoechos contains hymn s on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal (liturgy)|dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercession s of his most-pure Theotokos|Mother , of the honorable and glorious Prophet , Forerunner and baptism|Baptist John…"
Cultural references
In the Greeks|Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople ) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish language|Spanish -speaking world. For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday the 13th|Friday . In Judaism , on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in the first chapter of Book of Genesis|Genesis the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice.
In the Thai solar calendar , the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead";cite web |url= http://www.thai-language.com/id/131679 |title=?????? angM khaanM |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Thai-language.com |accessdate=31 August 2010 the color associated with Tuesday is pink .
In the folk rhyme '' Monday's Child '', "Tuesday's child is full of grace".
Astrology
Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars and shares that planet's symbol, ? . Tuesday is also associated with Uranus.
Common occurrences
United States
Tuesday is the usual day for election s in the United States . Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for U.S. presidential election|presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the U.S. Electoral College|Electoral College ), and was extended to elections for the United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives in 1875 and for the United States Senate|Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early nineteenth century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them. However, political scientists today suggest that moving elections to a day such as Sunday might increase voter turnout, as the employed would have an easier time voting.Citation needed|date=January 2011
Named days
Wall Street Crash of 1929|Black Tuesday , in the United States , refers to Tuesday, October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday. The crash is said to have marked the start of the Great Depression .
Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases patches for their products. Some system administrators call this day Black Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras - fat Tuesday ) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar .
Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary election s.
Jacob Grimm|Grimm, Jacob . 1875–78. Deutsche Mythologie . Fourth ed., curated by Elard Hugo Meyer, 3 vols. Berlin: F. Dümmler. Reprinted Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.
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