weekend Italian · revision 39092

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1905, Alfredo Panzini}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /wiˈkɛnd/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''weekend''' ''m'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also written ''week-end''.^(Wiktionary)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010) The English plural ''weekends'' is also used.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|weekend]], a compound of [[m|en|week]] and [[m|en|end]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) DELI dates the English phrase to 1638, while GRADIT and the GDLI date it to 1878.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(GDLI|21, 1033) The Italian [[fine settimana]] is a calque of it.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The word is first recorded in 1905, in Alfredo Panzini's dictionary of new words, both for the end of the week and for a short holiday on Saturday and Sunday.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1919 a correspondent of ''La Stampa'' in Paris still explained the word as what the English call the end of the week, when in general nothing is done.^(DELI 1999) The calque ''fine settimana'' followed by 1932;^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(DELI 1999) Heinimann noted that the two are not quite interchangeable in meaning and style.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(DELI 1999) The derivative ''weekendista'', one who goes away for the weekend, appears in the press in the 1960s.^(DELI 1999)

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+ Moravia, Vittorini and Pasolini used the word in its written form ''week-end''.^(GDLI|21, 1033)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1638 – DELI's date for the English phrase.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1878 – GRADIT's and the GDLI's date for English ''week-end''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(GDLI|21, 1033)

+ * 1905 – Panzini records ''week-end'' in Italian.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * 1919 – ''La Stampa'' explains the word to its readers.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1932 – ''Fine settimana'' is recorded.^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1964 – ''Weekendista'' appears in the ''Corriere della Sera''.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|weekend]], Saturday and Sunday as days free from work: ''Ci vediamo nel weekend.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A short holiday taken at the weekend: ''Sono partiti per un weekend in montagna.''^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[weekendista]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fine settimana]]

+ * [[en|weekend]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The word is masculine and usually invariable (''i weekend''), though the English plural ''weekends'' is also found.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) It is pronounced /wiˈkɛnd/, with the stress on the second syllable.^(Wiktionary)^(DiPI)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}