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Pasch¹

  • /pæsk/
  • /pɑːsk/

Rhymes with -æsk

Where it comes from

From Middle English Pask, Paske, Paskes, from Old French pasches (modern French Pâques), from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésaḥ). Doublet of Pascha, paska, paskha, and Pesach.

noun Paschs · pasch

  1. archaic Passover.
  2. archaic Easter.

pasch²

  • /ˈpæsk/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin pascha. Perhaps also influenced by Old Norse páskar and its derivatives.

noun

  1. archaic The feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover. And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch with my disciples.
  2. archaic The Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Man-God had scarcely returned to His Father when the Apostles hastened to establish a solemn festival to commemorate His pasch, that is to say, His glorious passage from death to life.

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@misc{pasch_2026,
  title = {pasch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pasch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}