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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Week days in Portuguese, start in Sunday goes to Saturday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So why do you use numbers? Domingo and sábado make sense as they're the same in Spanish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Because catholicism, the roman language names came from pagan gods, and the Portuguese wanted to distance from that. Sunday and Saturday keep their romance name because it had catholic/Jewish religious origin already.