pascua

From Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh).

pascua f (uncountable)

1. Easter

• páscoa

From Old Galician-Portuguese pascua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh). Cognate with Portuguese páscoa, Asturian pascua, Spanish pascua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaskwa̝/

pascua f (plural pascuas)

1. (Christianity) Easter

   Synonyms: Pascua, Pascua Florida, Pascua de Resurrección

2. (Christianity) the period between the birth of Christ and the adoration of the Magi
3. (Judaism) Passover

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pascua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pascua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pascua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pascua”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pascua”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh).

pascua f (Latin spelling)

1. (Haketia) holiday

• pāscua: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.ku.a/,
• pāscua: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ku.a/,
• pāscuā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.ku.aː/,
• pāscuā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ku.a/,

pāscua

1. inflection of pāscuus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

pāscuā

1. ablative feminine singular of pāscuus

pāscua

1. nominative/accusative plural of pāscuum

pāscua f (genitive pāscuae); first declension

1. pasture, place for beasts to graze

First-declension noun.

• “pascua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pascua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pascua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Pascua

Inherited from Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha (influenced by pascuum, pascua (“grazing; feed for animals”), the confusion aided by the end of Lent fasting at Easter), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaskwa/
• Rhymes: -askwa
• Syllabification: pas‧cua

pascua f (plural pascuas)

1. (Christianity) Easter
2. (Judaism) Passover

   Synonym: Pésaj

3. (Christianity) the period between the birth of Christ and the adoration of the Magi

• → Kavalan: Paskua
• → Bikol Central: Pasko
• → Cebuano: Pasko, Paskuwa
• → Ilocano: Paskua
• → Mezquital Otomi: baxjua
• → Papiamentu: Pasku
• → Quechua: Paskwa
• → Tagalog: Pasko, Paskuwa

• “pascua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• pascua on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es