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In the old Christian church year, Sexagesima is the second Sunday before Lent, so it falls about nine weeks before Easter. The name is Latin for “sixtieth (day)”, because this Sunday sits roughly sixty days before Easter. Though actually the count is not exact; the names are old labels more than a precise day-count. The Sundays around it follow the same idea: Septuagesima (about seventy), Sexagesima (about sixty), Quinquagesima (about fifty), and then Lent, once called Quadragesima (about forty). Most churches today have dropped these old names, so you will mainly meet Sexagesima in older books, or Catholic writing, and church-history talk. It is a proper name for a day, not a common noun, and it has nothing to do with sex.
六旬主日(大齋期/四旬期前的第二個主日)。舊教會曆用語;現在多數教會已不用這名稱。和「性」無關。
組成From Latin sexagesima dies, “sixtieth day”: feminine of sexagesimus (“60th”) + dies (“day”).
同家族的字
- sexagenariansame Latin “sixty”
- Septuagesimathe Sunday before, named as the “seventieth” in the same old church count
- Quinquagesimathe Sunday after, named as the “fiftieth” in the same old church count
- Quadragesimathe old name for Lent, the “fortieth”, in the same numbered set
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sexagesimanoun
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ChristianityIn the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。