quadragesima
See also: Quadragesima and quadragésima
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quadrāgēsima (“the fortieth part; Lent”), substantive of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”). Doublet of the inherited quaresima.
Noun
quadragesima f (plural quadragesime)
- Quadragesima
Related terms
- quaresima
Latin
Etymology
From quadragesimus (“fortieth”), from quadraginta (“forty”).
Noun
quadrāgēsima f (genitive quadrāgēsimae); first declension
- Lent, Christian fast of forty days
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | quadrāgēsima | quadrāgēsimae |
Genitive | quadrāgēsimae | quadrāgēsimārum |
Dative | quadrāgēsimae | quadrāgēsimīs |
Accusative | quadrāgēsimam | quadrāgēsimās |
Ablative | quadrāgēsimā | quadrāgēsimīs |
Vocative | quadrāgēsima | quadrāgēsimae |
Derived terms
- Quadragesima Sancti Martini (“Saint Martin's Lent”)
Descendants
Many reflect an early shortening to *quarēsima. Compare the reflexes of quadrāgintā 'forty'.
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: preasinj, pãreasinj
- Romanian: păresimi, Păresimi
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: Quaresima
- →? Sicilian: Quarèsima
- Neapolitan: Quarajesima, Corajesima
- Sicilian: Quarìsima
- Italian: Quaresima
- Northern Italian:
- Friulian: cresime, coresime
- Ladin: carëisema
- Romansch: curaisma, cureisma, curesma, quaraisma
- Venetian: cuaréxema
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: Carêma
- Old French: caresme, quaresme
- French: carême
- Norman: Carême, Tchithême (Jersey)
- Picard: carème, carinme (Amiens), cwarème (Lille/Hainaut) ⇒ carémieu, carimeu, coérémieu
- Walloon: cwareme
- Occitano-Romance:
- Aragonese: cuaresma
- Catalan: quaresma, coresma
- Occitan: caresma
- West Iberian:
- Asturian: Cuaresma
- Old Portuguese: quaraesma, quareesma, coresma
- Galician: coresma
- Portuguese: quaresma
- Old Spanish: quaraesma
- Spanish: Cuaresma
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: caresima
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: kreshmë
- → Basque: garizuma
- → Old Irish: Corgus
- Irish: Carghas
- Scottish Gaelic: Carghas
- → Serbo-Croatian: korizma
- → Welsh: Garawys, Grawys
- Learned borrowings:
- → French: quadragésime
- → Italian: quadragesima
- → Portuguese: quadragésima
- → Spanish: cuadragésima
References
- 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
Further reading
- 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 (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