FromVulgar Latinpascua, fromLatinpascha, fromAncient Greekπάσχα(páskha,“Passover”), fromAramaicפסחא(paskha), fromHebrewפסח(pesakh).
pascua f (uncountable)
- Easter
FromOld Galician-Portuguesepascua (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromVulgar Latinpascua, fromLatinpascha, fromAncient Greekπάσχα(páskha,“Passover”), fromAramaicפסחא(paskha), fromHebrewפסח(pesakh). Cognate withPortuguesepáscoa,Asturianpascua,Spanishpascua.
pascua f (pluralpascuas)
- (Christianity)Easter
- Synonyms:Pascua,Pascua Florida,Pascua de Resurrección
- (Christianity) the period between the birth ofChrist and theadoration of theMagi
- (Judaism)Passover
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González;Granja, María Álvarez de la;Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pascua”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pascua”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pascua”, inDicionario 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”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pascua”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
FromVulgar Latinpascua, fromLatinpascha, fromAncient Greekπάσχα(páskha,“Passover”), fromAramaicפסחא(paskha), fromHebrewפסח(pesakh).
pascua f
- (Haketia)holiday
pāscua
- inflection ofpāscuus:
- nominative/ablative/vocativefemininesingular
- nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural
pāscua
- nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofpāscuum
pāscua f (genitivepāscuae);first declension
- pasture, place forbeasts tograze
First-declension noun.
- “pascua”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "pascua", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “pascua”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Inherited fromVulgar Latinpascua, fromLatinpascha (influenced bypascuum, pascua(“grazing; feed for animals”), the confusion aided by the end of Lent fasting at Easter), fromAncient Greekπάσχα(páskha,“Passover”), fromAramaicפסחא(paskha), fromHebrewפסח(pesakh).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈpaskwa/[ˈpas.kwa]
- Rhymes:-askwa
- Syllabification:pas‧cua
pascua f (pluralpascuas)
- (Christianity)Easter
- (Judaism)Passover
- Synonym:Pésaj
- (Christianity) the period between the birth ofChrist and theadoration of theMagi