coresma

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin quadragesima, likely borrowed from another Romance language.

Noun

coresma

  1. 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)

  1. (Catholicism) Lent
    Synonym: corentena

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Noun

coresma f (plural coresmas)

  1. Archaic form of quaresma.