- quadragensumus
- quā̆drāgēsĭmus (old form † quā̆drāgensŭmus, Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. 6, p. 296), a, um, adj. [quadraginta].I.The fortieth:II.
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.—Subst.: quā̆drāgēsĭma, ae, f. (sc. pars), the fortieth part, a fortieth:B.quadragesima summae,
Suet. Calig. 40.—In partic.1.As a tax, the fortieth part, a fortieth (as with us, a tenth, a tithe):2.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.—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. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.