Definition of quadragesima, quadragesima
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LNS
quādrāgēsima, quādrāgēsimae
(quadrāgēsima, quadrāgēsimae)
quadragesimus
noun (f., 1st declension)
  1. the fortieth part, a fortieth
  2. the fortieth part, a fortieth
  3. the Christian fast of forty days
  4. Lent
Abbreviations
quā^drāgēsimus (old form † quā^-drāgensumus, Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. 6, p. 296), a, um, adj. quadraginta. The fortieth: pars quadragesima, Cato, R. R. 23, 2: nono et quadragesimo die, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 7: anno fere centesimo et quadragesimo, Cic. Rep. 2, 15, 29; id. Fam. 10, 33, 5: pars quadragesima octava, Col. 5, 1, 9; Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37.

— Subst.: quā^-drāgēsima, ae, f. (sc. pars), the fortieth part, a fortieth: quadragesima summae, Suet. Calig. 40.

— In partic. As a tax, the fortieth part, a fortieth (as with us, a tenth, a tithe): abolitio quadragesimae quinquagesimaeque, Tac. A. 13, 51: quadragesimae portorium sive vectigal, Symm. Ep. 5, 65: publicum quadragesimae in Asiā egit, Suet. Vesp. 1: C. ATIO ALCIMO FELICIANO ... PROG. QVADRAG. GALLIARVM, Inscr. Maff. Mus. Veron.; cf. abbrev., TABVLARIVS XXXX. GALLIAR., Inscr. Orell. 3344.

— In eccl. Lat., the Christian fast of forty days, Lent, Hier. Ep. 41, 3.
 
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