{"id":60,"date":"2009-08-11T20:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:34:36","slug":"days-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/days-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday &#8211; <strong>dies Lunae<\/strong>. The word <strong>dies Lunae<\/strong> comes from the word <strong>luna<\/strong>, which means moon in Latin. There was also a ancient Roman moon goddess called <strong>Luna<\/strong>. The temple was named <strong>Luna Noctiluca<\/strong> (luna that shines by night).<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday &#8211; <strong>dies Martis<\/strong>. Dies Martis literally means day of Mars. Mars\u00a0was the ancient Roman god of war.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\"><a title=\"Dies Mercurii\" href=\"http:\/\/la.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dies_Mercurii\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: none\"><strong>dies Mercur\u012di<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong>. <\/strong>It is derived from the Latin word <strong>merx<\/strong>, which means merchandise. Mercury was the god of commerce and the patron god of merchants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thursday &#8211; <strong>dies Jovis<\/strong>. Was the god of the sky and thunder and the king over all the other gods. Dies Jovis comes from the Latin <strong>Deus-pater<\/strong> which means &#8216;sky father&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Friday &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\"><a title=\"Dies Veneris\" href=\"http:\/\/la.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dies_Veneris\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: none\"><strong>dies Ven\u0115ris<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Was the god of love, beauty and fertility. It comes from the latin word for <strong>veneror,<\/strong> which means I adore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Saturday &#8211; <strong>dies Saturni<\/strong>. Named after the god Saturnus. Saturnus was the god of agriculture. He was one of the first gods, and the father of Jupiter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Sunday &#8211; <strong>dies Solis<\/strong>. Comes from the Latin word <strong>sol<\/strong>, meaning sun. The ancient Romans had a god called <strong>Sol Invictus<\/strong>, which means &#8216;unconquered sun.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday &#8211; dies Lunae. The word dies Lunae comes from the word luna, which means moon in Latin. There was also a ancient Roman moon goddess called Luna. The temple was named Luna Noctiluca (luna that shines by night). Tuesday &#8211; dies Martis. Dies Martis literally means day of Mars. Mars\u00a0was the ancient Roman god&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/days-of-the-week\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3691],"tags":[3706],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-latin-language","tag-days-of-the-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}