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Galician
Etymology
A semi-leaned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin quarentena.
Pronunciation
Noun
corentena f (plural corentenas)
- (medicine) quarantine
- (now rare) Lent
1992, Pegerto Saavedra, A vida cotiá en Galicia de 1550 a 1850:A corentena e as vixilias notábanse moito na alimentación, sobre todo na dos grupos privilexiados e urbanos, que tiñan que mercar na praza comestibles. Abandonábase o consumo de carne, e ás veces o de leite e ovos...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- forties (age)
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “quarentena”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “corentena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “corentena”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega