Quasimodo
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Etymology 1 edit
From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).
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Quasimodo (plural Quasimodos)
- (Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter.
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Etymology 2 edit
From the hunchback character Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The name of the character is derived from the first etymology.
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Quasimodo (plural Quasimodos)
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- OED 2nd edition 1989
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Proper noun edit
Quasimodo m or f by sense
- a surname
- Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer