Tue

See also: tue, TUE, tué, tuế, tu'e, Tuệ, and tü

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Tue (plural Tues)

1. Abbreviation of Tuesday.

Alternative forms

• Tues., Tues, Tue.

Translations

abbreviation of Tuesday

• Catalan: dt. (ca)
• Czech: út (cs)
• Estonian: T (et)
• Finnish: ti (fi)
• French: mar. (fr) m
• German: Di. (de), Die., Dienst.
• Hindi: मंगल (hi) m (maṅgal)
• Japanese: 火 (ja) (ka, kā), 火曜 (ja) (kayō)
• Korean: 화 (ko) (hwa)
• Portuguese: ter (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: Dim
• Swahili: Jnn

Etymology 2

Anglicisation of Old English Tiw from analogy with English Tuesday.

Proper noun

Tue

1. (rare) Alternative form of Tiw (the god Tyr).
   • 1995, Miles Jebb, Suffolk, page 193:

     One feels that here the old pagan gods have come into their own again, the ones we acknowledge every day of the week without thinking — Tue, Woden, Thor and Freia; and certainly nature herself has reclaimed what was once a site cleared of vegetation.

   • 2008, Adam Corres, Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate, Grosvenor House Publishing, first hardback edition, page 20:

     I remember this all took place on a Tuesday; the day of the great god 'Tue'. Honestly, that's who it's named after. If you don't believe me, go look it up. I have no idea what it was that Tue did exactly, but I'd say he or she was pretty lucky […]

   • 2013, Kate Sedley, The Christmas Wassail (Severn House, Sutton, UK; →ISBN:

     "If he can't mention Tue, Woden, Thor and Frig, how is he going to pronounce the days of the week?"

Anagrams

• ETU, TEU, Ute, ute

Danish

Proper noun

Tue

1. a male given name, short for compound names beginning with the Old Norse element Þur-, a variant of Þórr (“Thor”)