quinquagesime (1281)

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quinquagesime (1281)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1479b quinquagesima; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,462b quinquagesime; TL: 8,95 quinquagesime; DEAF:  quinquagesime; DMF:  quinquagésime; TLF:  quinquagésime; OED:  Quinquagesima n. / Quinquagesime n.; MED:  quinquages(i)me; DMLBS: 2633b quinquagesimus ]
 
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The Latin term itself was ambiguous, in that it was used to refer to the fiftieth day both before and after Easter (i.e. either the Sunday before Lent and/or Pentecost) as well as to the fifty-day period either before or after Easter. This ambiguity does not seem to have continued in the vernacular languages, where the word generally signifies the Sunday before Lent.

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1theol.timeliturgicalSunday immediately preceding Lent, fiftieth day before Easter
( 1281 )  Ceste lestre fu escrite la veille de quinquagesime a Fremyngham  i 179
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