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quinquagesimal

quinquagesimal adjective: of or related to a set of 50 people or items.

Adjective

quinquagesimal (not comparable)

  1. Of or related to a set of 50 people or items.
    • Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost.1842, Thomas Aquinas, translated by William Whiston, Catena aurea, J.G.F. and J. Rivington, translation of original in Medieval Latin

Origin of quinquagesimal

From Medieval Latin quinquagesimus (“fiftieth”) + -al.

Questions about quinquagesimal

What does quinquagesimal mean?
Quinquagesimal means of or related to a set of 50 people or items.
What part of speech is quinquagesimal?
Quinquagesimal is an adjective.

Words near quinquagesimal in the dictionary

  1. quinquagenaries
  2. quinquagenary
  3. quinquagene
  4. quinquagenes
  5. Quinquagesima
  6. quinquagesimal
  7. quinquagintillion
  8. quinquangle
  9. quinquangular
  10. quinquarticular
  11. Quinquatria

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