The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.
From Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ ("Tuesday"), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag ("Tuesday"). This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Martis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday ("Tuesday"), Saterland Frisian Täisdai ("Tuesday"), West Frisian tiisdei ("Tuesday"), dialectal German Ziestag ("Tuesday"), Danish tirsdag ("Tuesday"), Swedish tisdag ("Tuesday"). More at Tyr, day.
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