у меня мозг ссохся до размеров горошины, поэтому сама сообразить не в состоянии. Каким образом "the word ember" может оказаться "corruption of the Latin quatuor tempora", пусть даже и "perhaps"?
Это по поводу Ember Days, которые церковные.

ЗЫ. Приведу-ка целиком: "The Almanac traditionally marks the four periods formerly observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for prayer, fasting, and the ordination of clergy. These Ember Days are the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays that follow in succession after (1) the First Sunday in Lent; (2) Whitsunday–Pentecost; (3) the Feast of the Holy Cross, September 14; and (4) the Feast of St. Lucia, December 13. The word ember is perhaps a corruption of the Latin quatuor tempora, "four times." Folklore has it that the weather on each of the three days foretells the weather for three successive months; that is, for September’s Ember Days, Wednesday forecasts weather for October, Friday for November, and Saturday for December."