pascha

• Pascha

From Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Biblical Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.kʰa/, [ˈpäs̠kʰä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ka/, [ˈpäskä]

pascha n (variously declined, genitive paschatis or paschae); third declension, first declension[1][2][3]
pascha f (genitive paschae); first declension

1. Pascha / Passover or Easter
2. the Paschal Lamb

Greek πάσχα was neuter and invariable in form; the Latin word is found with various declension patterns and genders.

• Inflection as a neuter noun of the first declension (spelled in the nominative, accusative and ablative singular as pascha, in the dative and genitive singular as paschae, and taking neuter agreement) although unique, is attested in a number of Christian sources. In sources where the genitive/dative singular is unattested, the nominative/accusative/ablative singular forms could instead be interpreted as examples of an invariable declension.

• The alternative third-declension stem paschat- (as in the genitive singular form paschatis) was presumably created by analogy to third-declension neuter nouns from Greek that end in -ma and have stems in -mat-.

• It can also be found as a feminine first-declension noun, inflected regularly.

• The word is rarely found in the plural (some grammarians describe the plural as lacking);[n 1] however, a neuter plural form pascha is attested in the commentary of Jerome on the book of Isiah ("tria pascha").

• pascha crucifixiōnis (“pascha of the crucifixion, crucifixional pascha”)
• pascha resurrectiōnis (“pascha of the resurrection, resurrectional pascha”)
• paschālis

• phase

• “pascha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pascha 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)
• pascha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Russian па́сха (pásxa), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (paskha), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh). Doublet of Pascha and Pesach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.xa/

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• Rhymes: -asxa
• Syllabification: pas‧cha
• Homophone: Pascha

pascha f

1. paskha (Easter dessert)

• pascha in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pascha in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Turkish paşa (“pasha”), from Ottoman Turkish پاشا (paşa).

pascha c

1. a pasha (title)

• divan
• kåldolme
• kiosk
• krabat
• sultan