noun, masculine/sam.di/plural: samedis
Saturday
“...Jeudi de l’accordéon, de l’accordéon. Vendredi et samedi chantent la chanson de dimanche... En avant, la musique des jours de la semaine.” — ...Thursday the accordion, the accordion. Friday and Saturday sing the song of Sunday... Onward, the music of the days of the week.
Inherited from Old French samedi, from Vulgar Latin *sambatum and *sambatī diēs, from Latin Sabbatī diēs, variant of diēs Sabbatī (“day of the Sabbath”), from sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton) (Modern Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato)), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). See also sabbat, chabbat.