Noun: quaresma
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | quaresma |
| Plural f | quaresmas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like quaresma
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese quaraesma, from Latin quadrāgēsima (“the fortieth part; Lent”), substantive of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”). Compare Spanish Cuaresma. Doublet of quadragésima, which was a borrowing. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
quaraesma', Latin Nouns '
quadrāgēsima', Spanish Nouns '
Cuaresma'.
Verbs referencing "quaresma"
Galician Nouns
coresma.
Translations