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Aproveitando a dica do grande tradutor/intérprete Ulisses, os meses do ano também se escrevem com letra maíuscula, o pronome I e os adjetivos pátrios, segue a postagem do teclasap continuem acessando o blog do grande mestre Ulisses.

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FEIRA
[Fair. Also used in the names of the days of the week.]

Segunda-feira
Monday
Terça-feira
Tuesday
Quarta-feira
Wednesday
Quinta-feira
Thursday
Sexta-feira
Friday
Cf. Gramática: Letras maiúsculas

TIPS & NOTES

In English, the names of the days of the week come from planetary names or from Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian deities:

Sunday – Day of the Sun.
Monday – Day of the Moon.
Tuesday – Day of Tiu.
Wednesday – Day of Woden.
Thursday – Day of Thor.
Friday – Day of Frigg.
Saturday – Day of Saturn.
In Portuguese, the word feira comes from the Latin ‘feria’ – ‘free day’. So we have the words férias and feriado for ‘holidays’.

Cf. Vocabulário: Feriado

In the third century AD, Constantine sanctified all the days of the week with the name – ‘feria’ – to signify a Christian feast day or religious festival. So the seven days became… ‘Prima feria, secunda feria, tertia feria, quarta feria, quinta feria, sexta feria’ and ‘septima feria’.

In the fourth century ‘prima feria’ became domingo – Lord’s Day (Sunday) and ‘septima feria’ became sábado – Sabbath (Saturday).

Portuguese is the only modern language that preserves this ecclesiastical style of naming weekdays.