The corpus record — Latin

quadragesimus

quadragesimus · adj

The fortieth

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 6 · 1.37/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 1 · 0.66/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Noctes Atticae 5 · 0.45/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quā^drāgēsĭmus — Lewis & Short

quā^drāgēsĭmus (old form † quā^-drāgensŭmus, Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. 6, p. 296), a, um, adj.quadraginta.

I The fortieth: pars quadragesima, Cato, R. R. 23, 2: nono et quadragesimo die, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 7: anno fere centesimo et quadragesimo, Cic. Rep. 2, 15, 29; id. Fam. 10, 33, 5: pars quadragesima octava, Col. 5, 1, 9; Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37.—

II Subst.: quā^-drāgēsĭma, ae, f. (sc. pars), the fortieth part, a fortieth: quadragesima summae, Suet. Calig. 40.—

B In partic.

1 As a tax, the fortieth part, a fortieth (as with us, a tenth, a tithe): abolitio quadragesimae quinquagesimaeque, Tac. A. 13, 51: quadragesimae portorium sive vectigal, Symm. Ep. 5, 65: publicum quadragesimae in Asiā egit, Suet. Vesp. 1: C. ATIO ALCIMO FELICIANO ... PROG. QVADRAG. GALLIARVM, Inscr. Maff. Mus. Veron.; cf. abbrev., TABVLARIVS XXXX. GALLIAR., Inscr. Orell. 3344.—

2 In eccl. Lat., the Christian fast of forty days, Lent, Hier. Ep. 41, 3.

In the wild

quadragesima Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.2.p2
quadragesimum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.10.31.10
quadragesimo Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.35
quadragesimo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.24.p3
quadragesimi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.5.7
quadragesimo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.10.7

6 of 45 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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