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Where does “sexta feira” come from?

sexta feira (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese sesta feira, from Latin feria sexta, from Latin sexta, from Latin Sextus, from Latin sex, from Proto-Italic seks, from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs — six.

sexta feira (Galician): Friday

Definitions

  1. Friday

Ancestry of “sexta feira”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesesesta feiraFriday
2Latinferia sexta—
3LatinsextaNoon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight;...
4LatinSextus—
5Latinsexsix; 6
6Proto-Italicsekssix
7Proto-Indo-Europeanswéḱssix
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