Definition of "quadragesima" []

• The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Still it has been used from the Anglo-Saxon period to translate the more significant Latin term quadragesima (Fr. carême,"
• "; Italian as quaresima; and Spanishas cuaresma, these all deriving from the Latin quadragesima, meaning 'fortieth'."
• "Et hoc ab ineunte quadragesima vsque ad octo dies post Pascha."