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Webster 1913 Edition
Quadragesima
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Quadˊra-ges′i-ma
,Noun.
(Eccl.)
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadragesima Sunday
, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quadragesima
QUADRAGES'IMA
,Noun.
Lent; so called because it consists of forty days.
Definition 2025
Quadragesima
Quadragesima
See also: quadragesima and quadragésima
quadragesima
quadragesima
See also: Quadragesima and quadragésima
Latin
Etymology
From quadragesimus (“fortieth”), from quadraginta (“forty”).
Noun
quadragesima
Descendants
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Derived terms
- Quadragesima Sancti Martini (“Saint Martin's Lent”)
References
- QUADRAGESIMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quadragesima”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- quadragesima in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadragesima in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- quadragesima in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin