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Which is almost the literal translation to weekend or "Week End". Pretty much the same phrase used in Spanish (fin de semana) and I suspect in other romance lan

Which is almost the literal translation to weekend or "Week End". Pretty much the same phrase used in Spanish (fin de semana) and I suspect in other romance languages. P.D. Funnily enough, I looked up the translation for weekend in Latin and google gave me "volutpat vestibulum" and yet for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian I got a similar "Fin de Semana" phrase. I wonder why only the latin translation looks completely different? Here are the Translations for weekend for each Romance language and Latin: French - fin de semaine Spanish - fin de semana Romanian - sfârșit de săptămână Portuguese - final de semana Italian - fine settimana Latin - volutpat vestibulum Notice how only Latin looks completely different. I wonder if google translate is broken.

andrepd 8y ago
For Portuguese at least it's most likely translating word-for-word. The term is "fim-de-semana" ("fim" rather than "final", and hyphens signifying a compound word)
mc32 8y ago
Isn't it vacancelle in French? Never heard fin de semaine... although most just say le weekend.
- briandear 8y ago
  I have never heard vacancelle in France. But le week-end all the time. Even my kid’s school teachers used it. “Bon week-end!” Never heard fin de semaine even among my old country neighbors in Provence. My anecdote doesn’t make it fact of course. Most French people I know don’t pay any attention to the Academie Française.
krylon 8y ago
In German it's Wochenende (Woche = week, Ende = end), which is literally the literal translation. ... de.wiktionary.org tells me it was adopted from English, too, after World War I. Huh. I did not know it was such a young word. :)
monort 8y ago
Ancient Romans just didn't use weeks, so the translation is probably a modern one. The closest to a weekend is a market day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae

andrepd 8y ago

For Portuguese at least it's most likely translating word-for-word. The term is "fim-de-semana" ("fim" rather than "final", and hyphens signifying a compound word)

mc32 8y ago

Isn't it vacancelle in French? Never heard fin de semaine... although most just say le weekend.

briandear 8y ago
I have never heard vacancelle in France. But le week-end all the time. Even my kid’s school teachers used it. “Bon week-end!” Never heard fin de semaine even among my old country neighbors in Provence. My anecdote doesn’t make it fact of course. Most French people I know don’t pay any attention to the Academie Française.

krylon 8y ago

In German it's Wochenende (Woche = week, Ende = end), which is literally the literal translation. ... de.wiktionary.org tells me it was adopted from English, too, after World War I. Huh. I did not know it was such a young word. :)

monort 8y ago

Ancient Romans just didn't use weeks, so the translation is probably a modern one. The closest to a weekend is a market day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae