pasques
English edit
Noun edit
pasques
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha (influenced by pascuum, pascua (“grazing”)), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”).
Noun edit
pasques f pl
- Easter (Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Christ)
Usage notes edit
- In early Old French, the singular pasque was used.
Descendants edit
- Bourguignon: Pâques
- Middle French: Pasques
- Norman: Pâques, Paak
- Picard: Paques
- Walloon: Påke
- → Middle English: Pask, Paske, Paskes, Pasche, Pasch, Pasque
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pasques, supplement)