Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
CARNIPRIVIUM (carnispricium, privicarnium). - In many places, Quinquagesima Sunday was so called, because on it, and more precisely on the following Monday, abstinence from the use of meat began. This deprivation concerned almost exclusively the clergy; hence the name c. sacerdotum. Indeed, a Council of Clermont in 1095 obliged clerics to abstain from meat beginning on Quinquagesima Sunday. But the practice of beginning Lenten abstinence on the Monday after Quinquagesima was not maintained for long, and indeed
CARNEVALI, GIOVANNI - Self-portrait - Florence, Uffizi Gallery. (phot. Alinari)there was soon a return to the ancient custom of beginning Lent on Ash Wednesday. In the Mozarabic liturgy, Quinquagesima is in fact called: ante carnes tollendas; the Greeks call it ἀποκρεών.
BIBL.: F. A. Zaccaria, Onomasticon rituale, Faenza 1787, p. 435; C. Ducange, s. V. in Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis, II, Paris 1842, p. 191.
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“CARNIPRIVIUM (CARNISPRICIUM, PRIVICARNIUM).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 535. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/carniprivium-carnispricium-privicarnium.
