Editing Wednesday (section)

{{short description|Day of the week}}
{{other uses|Wednesday (disambiguation)}}
{{Original research|date=March 2021}}
[[File:NKS 1867 4to, 97v, Odin on Sleipnir.jpg|thumb|The [[Norse religion|Norse]] god [[Odin]] or Wōden, in an 18th century [[Iceland]]ic manuscript, after whom Wednesday is named]]

'''Wednesday''' is the [[day of the week]] between [[Tuesday]] and [[Thursday]]. According to [[International Standard Name Identifier|international]] standard [[ISO 8601]], it is the third day of the week.{{failed verification | reason = searched "third" and got nothing, and the only result for "of the week" was "ordinal number of a calendar week (3.1.2.16) within a calendar year (3.1.2.21) of the week calendar (3.1.1.23)" - added the closest I could find to a quote |date=May 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=ISO 8601-1:2019(en) Date and time — Representations for information interchange — Part 1: Basic rules |url=https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed-1:v1:en |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=www.iso.org| quote = calendar day of week: day amongst the sequence of week calendar (3.1.1.23) days, namely, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday }}</ref>

In English, the name is derived from [[Old English]] {{Lang|ang|Wōdnesdæg}} and [[Middle English]] {{Lang|enm|Wednesdei}}, 'day of [[Woden]]', reflecting the [[Anglo-Saxon paganism|religion practised by the Anglo-Saxons]], the English equivalent to the [[Norse mythology|Norse]] god [[Odin]]. In many [[Romance languages]], such as the French {{Lang|fr|mercredi}}, Spanish {{Lang|es|miércoles}} or Italian {{Lang|it|mercoledì}}, the day's name is a [[calque]] of [[Latin]] {{Lang|la|dies Mercurii}} 'day of [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]]'.

Wednesday is in the middle of the common [[Western world|Western]] five-day [[workweek]] that starts on Monday and finishes on [[Friday]].