quadragensumus

quadragensumus
quā̆drāgēsĭmus (old form † quā̆drāgensŭmus, 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, [p. 1499] 33, 5:

pars quadragesima octava,

Col. 5, 1, 9; Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37.—
II.
Subst.: quā̆drāgēsĭma, 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.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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