kwarenta

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: kwa‧ren‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish cuarenta, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”).

Numeral

kwarenta

  1. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.

Etymology 2

Short for kwarenta diyas.

Noun

kwarenta

  1. The fortieth day after a person's death, preceded by nine novena days, where a requiem mass is celebrated and a party is held for the deceased. Paralleling, and as remembrance of, Christ's ascension, it is supposedly the day the deceased person's soul ascends to heaven.
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