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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=13th century, Mattasala di Spinello|origins=la lūna, la diēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /lu.neˈdi/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ Old Italian had [[m|roa-oit|lunidie]], [[m|roa-oit|lunedie]] and [[m|roa-oit|lunidì]], and older dialect forms include ''lune'' and ''luni''.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la|lūnae diēs|alt=Lūnae diēs|t=day of the Moon]], made of [[m|la|lūna|t=moon]] and [[m|la|diēs|t=day]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) The name comes from astrology: the Moon was thought to rule the first hour of the day.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(GDLI) The names of the weekdays after the heavenly bodies belong to a Greek astronomical calendar of Semitic origin, which became established at Rome in the 2nd century AD and spread by loan or calque to the Celtic and Germanic languages.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ The word is panromance: [[fr|lundi]], [[oc|diluns]], [[ca|dilluns]], [[es|lunes]], [[sc|lunis]] and [[ro|luni]].^(Nocentini 2010) Catalan keeps the original order “day + Moon”, from a Late Latin form with the genitive ⟨Lunis⟩ made on the model of ⟨Martis⟩; the reversed order spread from Old French [[m|fro|lunsdi]], perhaps under the influence of Germanic, as in [[goh|mānatag]], [[de|Montag]] and [[en|Monday]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|2285) Spanish, Sardinian and Romanian use the short form, while Portuguese [[m|pt|segunda-feira]] follows the Christian count of days from Sunday.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ Latin [[m|la|lūna]] goes back to Proto-Italic ⟨*louksnā-⟩ and Proto-Indo-European [[m|ine-pro|*lewk-|t=light, bright]], an epithet of the moon meaning “shining”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is ''lunidie'' in the Sienese account book of Mattasala di Spinello, of the 13th century: ''Ebeli lunidie x die a l'escita di genaio'' “I had them on Monday, the tenth day at the end of January”.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI) The form ''lunedì'' appears in Restoro d'Arezzo in 1282.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Monday is the first day of the civil week but the second of the Church's, which counts from Sunday.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011) Workers who had to work on Sunday took Monday off, and Old Italian called this rest day ''lunediana''; wool workers, who were paid on Monday, were said to ''fare la lunediana''.^(Nocentini 2010)^(GDLI)^(DEI|2285)

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+ The Church calendar names particular Mondays: ''lunedì santo'' in Holy Week, ''lunedì dell'Angelo'' after Easter, popularly ''Pasquetta'', and ''lunedì grasso'', the last Monday of Carnival.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 12th century – Old French ''lunsdi'' is recorded.^(DEI|2285)

+ * 13th century – ''Lunidie'' appears in the account book of Mattasala di Spinello.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1282 – Restoro d'Arezzo writes ''lunedì''.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * Before 1665 – ''Lunediana'', the workers' Monday holiday, is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Monday]]: the first day of the civil week and the second of the liturgical week: ''Il negozio resta chiuso il lunedì.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lunediana]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[luna]]

+ * [[fr|lundi]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Lunedì'' is masculine and invariable.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) With the article it means “every Monday” (''il lunedì'', also ''di lunedì''), without it a particular Monday (''ci vediamo lunedì'').^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}