What is the origin of the word lent?
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it is from the Middle English word lenten, or lente, meaning spring (reference to the time of year that it happens).
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Dictionaries give the origin of "church" as the Anglo-Saxon root, circe. Circe was the goddess-daughter of Helios, the Sun-deity. The word circe is related to "circus," "circle," "circuit," and "circulate."\n\nCirce was originally a Greek goddess whose name was written and pronounced as Kirke. The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, in Germany as Kirche, and in Netherlands as kerk.
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I think you mean "caritas" which is where we derive our word charity.  Charity means kindness, generosity, and it can also mean donations of money or goods to people who are less fortunate.  \n\nFrom the Online Etymological Dictionary: \ncharity Look up charity at Dictionary.com\n    1137, "benevolence for the poor," from O.Fr. charite, from L. caritas (acc. caritatem) "costliness, esteem, affection" (in Vulgate often used as translation of Gk. agape "love" -- especially Christian love of fellow man -- perhaps to avoid the sexual suggestion of L. amor), from carus "dear, valued," from PIE *karo-, from base *ka- "to like, desire" (see whore). Vulgate also sometimes translated agape by L. dilectio, n. of action from diligere "to esteem highly, to love."\n\n        "Wyclif and the Rhemish version regularly rendered the Vulgate dilectio by 'love,' caritas by 'charity.' But the 16th c. Eng. versions from Tindale to 1611, while rendering agape sometimes 'love,' sometimes 'charity,' did not follow the dilectio and caritas of the Vulgate, but used 'love' more often (about 86 times), confining 'charity' to 26 passages in the Pauline and certain of the Catholic Epistles (not in I John), and the Apocalypse .... In the Revised Version 1881, 'love' has been substituted in all these instances, so that it now stands as the uniform rendering of agape." [OED]"
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Latin, originally.  \n\n"The syllable names come from a formerly well-known medieval hymn, entitled Ut queant laxis, in which each successive musical phrase, corresponding to a half line of the first verse, starts on the next higher scale degree in the major scale. The first syllable in each half line corresponds to the solfege syllable, with the exception of the first, "Ut," which was changed to the more singable "Do." The original hymn did not start a phrase upon the seventh scale degree. To fill in this gap, at a later time the Ti (or sometimes Si) was added to the repertoire."
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Xmas\nThis abbreviation for Christmas is of Greek origin. The word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. During the 16th century, Europeans began using the first initial of Christ's name, "X" in place of the word Christ in Christmas as a shorthand form of the word. Although the early Christians understood that X stood for Christ's name, later Christians who did not understand the Greek language mistook "Xmas" as a sign of disrespect
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From ******, which is a deritive of **********.  Its also latin for *******************  *****.
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From the Greek name Θεοδωρος (Theodoros), which meant "gift of god" from Greek θεος (theos) "god" and δωρον (doron) "gift". This was the name of several early saints and two popes. \n\nAugustus-Means "great" or "venerable", derived from Latin augere "to increase".
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Behind the Name gives two possible derivations:\n\n1) It could be a corruption or diminutive of Santiago - which would then make it a variant of Jacob\n\nor\n\n2) It could derive from the Greek name Didacus, meaning "teaching" or "teacher"
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I like your questions about Tammuz. I am not Christian, but I really enjoy being challenged to find the information you're trying to get out of us Y!A-ers. \n\nAnyway, this is a bit of the information I foudn out about lent.\n\nThe word "lent" is of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning "spring." Lent developed from the pagan celebration of weeping, fasting, and mourning for 40 days over the death of Tammuz (one day for each year of his life). Tammuz (the son/husband of the Babylonian idol Ishtar) was killed by a wild boar and then allegedly resurrected. This mourning of Tammuz is specifically prophesied by Ezekiel in the Bible and is characterized by God Himself as being detestable (Ezekiel 8:13-15).\n\nthis is interesting too... \n\n\nWho celebrates Easter? Witches, who base their celebrations (including Halloween) on the phases of the moon, celebrate Easter. Christians, however, are clearly forbidden from observing this pagan celebration (Deuteronomy 12:30-31; Luke 4:8; 1 Corinthians 10:20-22; Ephesians 5:11). There is a good reason why the early church never spoke of Easter and why there is absolutely no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament. (The only exception is a mistranslation in the King James version of Acts 12:4, where it gives the word "Easter" instead of the correction translation "Passover.") It was not an oversight on God's part; Christians simply are not to celebrate Easter, a pagan festival.\n\n\n\nI wish more people would talk about these things! It's fascinating.
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Not exactly sure and can't find any detailed explanation.\n\nIt's one of two types of speech common in London.  One is called Jafaican and is a blend of Jamaican and African and the other is Tikkiny which is used to describe the dialect of Bangladeshi people.\n\nThere's nothing to explain the origin of the word - maybe it's derived from a Bangladeshi word.\n\nHere's a couple of newspaper articles with more info... \nhttp://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article357032.ece \nhttp://www.dailypioneer.com/foray1.asp?main_variable=SUNDAYPIONEER%2FGLOBE&file_name=globe1.txt&counter_img=1
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I found this but it seems to be in German\n\nhttp://www.basf-cc.de/NR/rdonlyres/57B4A1EE-4498-4EA9-8853-217BC12715A6/56922/SDB_D___Lentan_VZ_33_VZ___09_04.pdf
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Xerophagy, not Xerophargy\n\n&#92;Xe*roph"a*gy&#92;, n. [L. xerophagia, Gr. ?; ? dry + ? to eat.] Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.
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vanta (="to lack") \n\nWord of Old Norse origin that have entered the English language
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My favorite (and the longest one I know) comes from the Middle Ages, and is in Latin.  Saint Martin was travelling through France to Rome.  While on the road, he encountered the Devil, who began to tease him relentlessly.  After a few miles of this treatment, Saint Martin was so incensed that he beat Satan with his walking stick -- upon which Satan turned into a donkey.\n\nThis is why it's accurate to describe the devil as a French A**.  Just kidding.\n\nIn any case, upon his transformation, the Devil cried:\n\nSigna te signa; temere me tangis et angis;\nRoma tibi subito motibus ibit Amor.\n\nThis is a palindrome, and means "Make the sign of the cross and do it again; you vex and bother me without reason.  Soon you will reach Rome, the object of your wishes."  Seeing a ripe opportunity, Saint Martin jumped on the donkey's back and rode him to the Eternal City (and the donkey became Pope!  Just kidding).\n\nTo this you might reply: "Devil never even lived."  As for the author, he was distracted.  "God, a red nugget!  A fat egg under a dog!"  -- this is what I heard he said last.
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Dear friend ,\n      It is time that matters in our religious persuit.Because awareness of time is extremely necessary to make us responsible.\n       Lent is not just avoiding meat eating.It is the resemblance of our sacrifice to get prepared for a life with God.What has a rose or choclate or a kiss to do with our love life???\n  It represents our love.Like wise Prayer and Lent represents our wish to be with God!
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pavleen is a slavic version of pauleen.. and pauleen comes from paul, which usually refers to st. paul.
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Nothing. Lent is a pagan observance. Lent was first observed in Assyria and Palestine in the month of June. In Egypt it was the month of May when it was kept. When it finally migrated to Britain this pagan fast was observed in April. It seems to be a most flexible fast suitable for any type of pagan idolatry. For I notice that in 1950 the Roman Lent begins in February! \n\nRome's method of enveloping Babylon's Lent and incorporating it into her ritual should he noticed. About the year 525, Rome, pursuing her usual policy of absorbing the pagan observances and in order to gain nominal adherents to the church, engineered a new religious merger. Under the shrewd management of the Abbot Dionysus the Little, the pagan Lent was established as a church observance. And so the Church, now controlled from Rome, and fast sinking into every form of corruption, added yet this evil of a "sacred fast" to her list of idolatries. In his manipulations to fit a 40-day Lent into the calendar this same Dionysus caused the approximate date of Christ's birth to be changed four years later than the truth. This change of calendar brought in the grossest corruption and rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. It was only the beginning of another form of Roman evil.\n\nLeave Lent alone. It will contaminate you.