carene
UK/kɒriːn/US/kɑɹiːn/
carene noun: synonym of carenum (“reduction of must or sweet wine in ancient European cuisine”).
Noun (1)
carene (uncountable)
Noun (2)
carene (plural carenes)
- A 40-day fast or period of similar abstinence.
- An indulgence from 40 days of fasting or similar abstinence, especially during Lent; (later) various equivalent indulgences against punishment in Purgatory.
- You have with much labour, and some charge, purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon; that is, you have bought off the penances of so many times forty dayes. It is well; but were you well advised, it may be your Quadragenes are not Carenes; that is, are not a quitting the...1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Disswasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, page 93
- Careen (and its Latin source, quadragene) no longer made sense in the fifteenth century because priests no longer distributed punishments in forty-day parcels, the duration of Lent... the culture had shifted from brief punishments on earth to long punishments in the afterlife, in Purgatory. But the...2016, Kathryn M. Rudy, Rubrics, Images, & Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts, pages 47–8
- Synonyms:
- quadragene
Noun (3)
carene (plural carenes)
Synonyms of carene
Forms of carene
| plural | carenes |
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Origin of carene
From Latin carēnum or caroenum, from Ancient Greek κάροινον (károinon), q.v.
From Medieval Latin carēna (“40-day fast; remission of such a fast”), from Late Latin quadragēna (“40-day period, Lent”) or quarantena (“40-day period”), from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Doublet of quadragene.
From French carène (“keel”), from Latin carīna (“keel”).
Questions about carene
- What does carene mean?
- Carene means synonym of carenum (“reduction of must or sweet wine in ancient European cuisine”).
- What part of speech is carene?
- Carene is a noun.
- How do you pronounce carene?
- Carene is pronounced /kɑɹiːn/ (US).
- What is the plural of carene?
- The plural of carene is carenes.
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