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Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin quadragesima, likely borrowed from another Romance language.
Noun
coresma
- Lent
References
- Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese quareesma (independently attested in both corpora)~quaraesma, from Latin quadrāgēsima (“the fortieth part; Lent”), substantivization of quadrāgēsimus (“fortieth”). Compare Portuguese quaresma.
Pronunciation
Noun
coresma f (plural coresmas)
- (Catholicism) Lent
- Synonym: corentena
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “quareesma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “quaresma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coresma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “coresma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “coresma”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- “coresma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “coresma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Noun
coresma f (plural coresmas)
- Archaic form of quaresma.