Editing Saturday (section)

{{short description|Day of the week}}
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[[File:Polidoro da Caravaggio - Saturnus-thumb.jpg|thumb|Saturnus, [[Polidoro da Caravaggio|Caravaggio]], 16th century]]

'''Saturday''' is the [[day of the week]] between [[Friday]] and [[Sunday]]. No later than the [[2nd century]], the Romans named Saturday {{lang|la|diēs Sāturnī}} ("Saturn's Day") for the god [[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]]. His planet, [[Saturn]], controlled the first [[hour]] of that day, according to [[Vettius Valens]].<ref name=days>{{citation |last=Falk |first=Michael |title=Astronomical Names for the Days of the Week |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1999JRASC..93..122F |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |volume=93 |pages=122–133 |date=June 1999|bibcode=1999JRASC..93..122F }}</ref><ref name=VettiusValens>{{citation |author=Vettius Valens |author-link=Vettius Valens |translator-last=Riley |translator-first=Mark |title=Anthologies |url=https://www.csus.edu/indiv/r/rileymt/Vettius%20Valens%20entire.pdf |publisher=Sacramento State |year=2010 |orig-year=150–175 |pages=11–12}}</ref> The day's name was introduced into [[West Germanic languages]] and is recorded in the [[Low German]] languages such as [[Middle Low German]] {{lang|gml|satersdach}}, ''saterdach'', [[Middle Dutch]] {{lang|dum|saterdag}} (Modern Dutch {{lang|nl|zaterdag}}), and Old English {{lang|ang|Sæternesdæġ}}, ''Sæterndæġ'' or {{lang|ang|Sæterdæġ}}.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Hoad, TF|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology|date=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-283098-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00tfho/page/418 418a]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00tfho/page/418}}</ref>