• Pasch

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: en, /ˈpæsk/

    Origin

    From , Passover, Easter, From , from , from

    Originally < post-classical Latin pascha (see below); subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman and Old French pasche, paske, pask (c1140 in sense ‘Easter’, c1165 in sense ‘Passover’; attested earlier (late 10th cent.) as plural nouns paschas Easter, pasches Passover; French pâques Easter, pasque Passover) < post-classical Latin pascha Passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal (Vetus Latina), Easter (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < Hellenistic Greek πάσχα passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal (Septuagint, New Testament), Easter (Christian writers from the 2nd cent. a.d.) < Aramaic pisḥā Passover fesival, Passover sacrifice, Passover meal (emphatic form of pasaḥ to pass over; compare Syriac peṣḥā Passover, Easter, reinterpreted by folk etymology as an emphatic form of pṣaḥ to rejoice) < Hebrew pesaḥ Passover (see Pesach n.) < pāsaḥ to pass or spring over (Exodus 12:13, etc.). Compare post-biblical Hebrew pisĕḥā Passover, modern Hebrew pasĕḥā Easter (both influenced by Aramaic). Compare pace n.2, fase n., Pesach n.

    Older Scots and northern English forms may also show influence from Scandinavian languages; compare Old Icelandic páskar , Old Swedish paska , paskar (Swedish påsk ), Old Danish paska , paschæ (Danish påske ).

    Compare also Old Occitan pasca , (plural) pascas , Spanish pascua (1090), Italian pasqua Easter (1305–6; earlier in this sense as pasca (1114); also attested in more general sense of ‘Christian festival’ (1240–6 as ‘Pentecost’)), Passover (a1342), Portuguese páscoa (13th cent.); Old Frisian pāscha , Middle Dutch paeschen , paschen (Dutch pasen ), Old Saxon pāscha (Middle Low German pāscha , pāsche , pāschen , German regional (Low German) pâschen , pâsken ), Middle High German pasche , Gothic paska ; Old Russian, Russian pasxa (compare paskha n.).

    Full definition of pasch

    Noun

    pasch

    1. (theology or archaic) Passover; the Passover feast; or the Paschal Lamb
      • Douay Challoner Bible|NT|Matthew|26|17–18|text=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.
      • Douay Challoner Bible|NT|Luke|22|1|text=NOW the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.
      • 1898, A. J. Maas, The Gospel According to Saint-Matthew: With an Explanatory and Critical Commentary
      • 1989, Commentary on the Gospel of John
    2. Easter; Eastertide
      • 1843, Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.), Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity ... Also, the Antiquity of Presbytery; including an account of the ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick, etc
      • 1925, Catholic University of America, Patristic Studies
    3. (theology or archaic) the Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus
      • 1884, Jean Gaume, The Catechism of Perseverance; Or, An Historical, Dogmatical, Moral, Liturgical, Apologetical, Philosophical, and Social Exposition of Religion: From the Beginning of the World Down to Our Own Days
      • 1999, Anscar J. Chupungco, Handbook for Liturgical Studies: The Eucharist
      • 2007, Matthew Levering, Ezra & Nehemiah
      • 2013, F. X. Durrwell, In the Redeeming Christ
      • 2015, Jon Sobrino, Christ the Liberator: A View from the Victims
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