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Cornelius Colangelo, MD
University of California—San Francisco

JAMA. 1994;272(18):1409.

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To the Editor.

—I write regarding the comment on the etymology of the word "carnival" by Dr Dirckx¹ in a letter to the editor. Dr Dirckx traces carnival to carnilevaria (taking away meat) in medieval Latin.

I had always understood that the word carnival was an anglicization of the Latin, carne (meat) and vale (farewell), signifying doing without meat during Lent as a form of penance. This construction has the appeal of common-sense logic, a quality for which Romans-Latins were admired. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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