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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɛmbə ˌdeɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛmbɚ ˌdeɪ/ [General-American] Forms: Ember days [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ember-dai, imber-dai, imbre-dai (“Ember day”), from Old English ymbren-dæg. Ymbren is possibly a corrupted form of Old English ymbryne (“period, revolution of time”), from ymb (“around, about”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“around, about”)) + ryne (“path along which motion occurs; course”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r ̊-nw- (“to flow, move, run”)). Alternatively, Ember could be a corruption of Latin quatuor tempora (“four periods”), from which German Quatember (“Embertide”) is derived. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ent-}}, {{inh|en|enm|ember-dai}} Middle English ember-dai, {{m|enm|imber-dai}} imber-dai, {{m|enm|imbre-dai|t=Ember day}} imbre-dai (“Ember day”), {{inh|en|ang|ymbren-dæg}} Old English ymbren-dæg, {{inh|en|ang|ymbryne|t=period, revolution of time}} Old English ymbryne (“period, revolution of time”), {{m|ang|ymb|t=around, about}} ymb (“around, about”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₂m̥bʰi|t=around, about}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“around, about”), {{m|ang|ryne|t=path along which motion occurs; course}} ryne (“path along which motion occurs; course”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(H)r ̊-nw-|t=to flow, move, run}} Proto-Indo-European *(H)r ̊-nw- (“to flow, move, run”), {{der|en|la|quatuor tempora|t=four periods}} Latin quatuor tempora (“four periods”), {{cog|de|Quatember|t=Embertide}} German Quatember (“Embertide”), {{sup|2}} ² Head templates: {{en-noun}} Ember day (plural Ember days)
  1. (Christianity) Any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December). Categories (topical): Christianity, Observances Synonyms: Embering [obsolete], ember day Related terms: Ember-eve, Ember-fast, Ember-Friday, Embertide, Ember-time, Ember week Translations (any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer): Suché den [masculine] (Czech), Tamperdag (Danish), Quatre-Temps [masculine, plural] (French), témpora [feminine] (Galician), Quatember [masculine] (German), tempora [feminine] (Italian), suche dni [masculine, plural] (Polish), têmpora [feminine] (Portuguese), témpora [feminine] (Spanish), Chay mùa (Vietnamese)

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          "ref": "1848, Joel Spyker, “Almanack. Containing 169 Questions and Answers.”, in A Collection of Geographical, Moral, Religious, Biblical, Political and Other Chapters, in the Form of Questions and Answers, […], Brookville, Pa.: Brady & Wilson, printers, →OCLC, page 115",
          "text": "47. When does the third Ember day happen? On the first Wednesday after the Holy Cross. 48. When does that day happen? The Holy Cross always happens on the 14th day of September. 49. Why is that day named Holy Cross? Because that day was instituted in consequence of Queen Helena finding a piece of the Cross on Mount Calvery, about the year A.D. 615.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, “December 13”, in R[obert] Chambers, editor, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar: […] In Two Vols., volume II, Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, →OCLC, page 687, column 2",
          "text": "The Ember-days are periodical fasts originally instituted, it is said, by Pope Calixtus, in the third century, for the purpose of imploring the blessing of Heaven on the produce of the earth; and also preparing the clergy for ordination, in imitation of the apostolic practice recorded in the 13th chapter of the Acts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Edwin Miller Fogel, “Special Days and Seasons”, in Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Germanica Press, →OCLC, paragraph 1305, page 252",
          "text": "You must not butcher beef on an Ember day but you may cut it up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Schoolboy (1867–1876)”, in Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley, editors, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, London: Harper Perennial, page 49",
          "text": "I then drove to the Red Lion, here I met one of the fathers the first thing he said to me was, I dispense you from eating fish today (an ember day) so I got some meat soup I found the stockport bus, and drive here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Philip H. Pfatteicher, “Advent”, in Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 67",
          "text": "These are the Ember Days, the name derived from the German Quatember, a corruption of quattuor tempore, \"the four times,\" four groups of three days (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday), marking the seasons by fasting and abstinence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December)."
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        "(Christianity) Any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "Embering"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛmbə ˌdeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛmbɚ ˌdeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ember day"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Suché den"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "word": "Tamperdag"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Quatre-Temps"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "témpora"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Quatember"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempora"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "suche dni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "têmpora"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "témpora"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer",
      "word": "Chay mùa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ember day"
}

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