quinquagesimal

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adjective

Of or related to a set of 50 people or items.

OriginMedieval Latin quinquagesimus →
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Meanings

adjectivequinquagesimal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf 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

  1. Medieval Latinquinquagesimus“fiftieth”
  2. Englishquinquagesimal

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

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quinquagesimal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quinquagesimal

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Chicago

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