Noun: quaraesma
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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mid–late 13th c., Siete Partidas, I.V.XIII
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...et las primeras, que son de verano, comienzan en el segundo miercoles de quaraesma, et las segundas, que son del estivo, comienzan en el primero miercoles despues de cinquaesma... (...and the first [set of Ember Days], which are in spring, begin on the second Wednesday of Lent, while the second [set of Ember Days], which are in summer, begin on the first Wednesday after Pentecost...)
Nouns inflected like quaraesma
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin quadrāgēsima. See: Latin Nouns '
quadrāgēsima'.
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