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 pisá¸¥Ä Passover fesival, Passover sacrifice, Passover meal (emphatic form of pasaḥ to pass over; compare Syriac peá¹£á¸¥Ä Passover, Easter, reinterpreted by folk etymology as an emphatic form of pá¹£aḥ to rejoice) < Hebrew pesaḥ Passover (see Pesach n.) < pÄsaḥ to pass or spring over (Exodus 12:13, etc.). Compare post-biblical Hebrew pisÄ•á¸¥Ä Passover, modern Hebrew pasÄ•á¸¥Ä 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 pÄscha , Middle Dutch paeschen , paschen (Dutch pasen ), Old Saxon pÄscha (Middle Low German pÄscha , pÄsche , pÄschen , 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
- (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
- 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
- (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