pasques
English
editNoun
editpasques
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha (influenced by pascuum, pascua (“grazing”)), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”).
Noun
editpasques 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 (Sark)
- 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)
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- English non-lemma forms
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- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
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- Old French pluralia tantum