quadragesima

Borrowed from Latin quadrāgēsima (“the fortieth part; Lent”), substantive of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”). Doublet of the inherited quaresima.

quadragesima f (plural quadragesime)

1. Quadragesima

• quaresima

From quadragesimus (“fortieth”), from quadraginta (“forty”).

quadrāgēsima f (genitive quadrāgēsimae); first declension

1. Lent, Christian fast of forty days

First-declension noun.

• Quadragesima Sancti Martini (“Saint Martin's Lent”)

Many reflect an early shortening to *quarēsima. Compare the reflexes of quadrāgintā 'forty'.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 775: “la quaresima” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quadragesima”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1389

• quadragesima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadragesima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quadragesima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadragesima in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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