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单词 quadragesima
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Quadragesiman.

Brit. /ˌkwɒdrəˈdʒɛsᵻmə/, U.S. /ˌkwɑdrəˈdʒɛsəmə/
Forms: 1500s Whadragesima, 1500s– Quadragesima.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadragesima.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin quadragesima forty-day fast, Lent (4th cent.), first Sunday in Lent (9th cent. in a British source; also Dominica quadragesime (c1250 in a British source)), use as noun (short for quadragesima dies fortieth day) of feminine of classical Latin quadrāgēsimus fortieth < quadrāgintā forty ( < quadrā- ( < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek (Doric and Ionic) τετρώ- (in τετρώκοντα forty) < an ablaut variant of the Indo-European base of four adj.) + -gintā , suffix forming cardinal numerals from thirty to ninety, related to decem ten: see decem- comb. form) + -ēsimus , extended form (after vīcēsimus ) of -simus , suffix used to form ordinal numerals. Compare earlier Quadragesime n.Compare Middle French, French quadragésime Lent (1487), first Sunday in Lent (1680), Italian quadragesima (a1547), and also the popular forms Old French, Middle French quaresme, caresme, French carême (1119), Spanish cuaresma (13th cent.), Portuguese quaresma (13th cent.), Italian quaresima (1353); compare also Early Irish corgus, cargus Lent (Irish Carghas; probably via British), Welsh Grawys, Garawys Lent (13th cent.). The form Whadragesima occurs in a representation of Scottish speech.
Christian Church. Now chiefly historical.
(a) Lent; the forty days of Lent. (b) The first Sunday in Lent. Also Quadragesima Sunday.
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Lent tidelOE
Lentc1300
Lent timec1400
Quadragesime1483
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Quadragesimac1560
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Quadragesima Sundayc1560
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 127v Lente hatte quadragesima and is þe space of fourty dayes, as Iohn seiþ.]
c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. D.vi Poope Leo ordained, that in Septuagesima and Quadragesima and aduent, Alleluya should not be songe.
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iii. iv Say the deuill tentyng Chraist, ay faind whadragesima, say Chraist on the Crosse, ay serch out gude frayday.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Quadragesima Sunday, or the first Sunday in Lent.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Quadragesima is the first Sunday in Lent.
1665 J. Evelyn Let. 9 Feb. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 151 I have always esteemed abstinence à tanto beyond the fulfilling of periods and quadragesimas.
1713 F. Fox Duty Public Worship Proved x. 78 Quadragesima is the first Sunday in Lent; so called, because it is from thence forty Days to Easter.
1794 W. Tindal Hist. Evesham 34 He was on Quadragesima Sunday confirmed Abbot.
1853 Times 22 Jan. 7/2 She said Dr. Achilli had connexion with her seven or eight times in November and December, and down to Quadragesima, when she discovered her pregnancy, and told her mother.
1893 R. Lanciani Pagan & Christian Rome i. 50 Possibly it is from this allegory of paradise that the rite of the ‘golden rose’ which the Pope blesses on Quadragesima Sunday is derived.
1910 J. MacCaffrey Hist. Catholic Church in 19th Cent. II. 323 A collection should be held..on Quadragesima Sunday, which should be devoted in great part to helping the societies engaged in instructing the Indians and Negroes.
1965 G. S. Sloyan To hear Word of God 61 The names of the next three Sundays in the Roman calendar mean, respectively, seventy, sixty, and fifty. They comprise a sort of holy count-down for Quadragesima, the forty-day time, in English, Lent.
2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time v. 84 The Western church preferred to begin the seasons with fasts on the Wednesday after Quadragesima, Whit Sunday, Holy Cross day,..and St Lucy's day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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