Pasquale Pasquale Pasquale is a masculine Italian given name and a surname mainly found in southern Italy. It is a cognate of the French name Pascal, the Spanish Pascual, the Portuguese Pascoal and the Catalan Pasqual. Pasquale derives from the Latin "paschalis" or "pashalis", which means "relating to Easter", from Latin "pascha" ("Easter"), Greek "Πάσχα", Aramaic "pasḥā", in turn from the Hebrew "פֶּסַח", which means "to be born on, or to be associated with, Passover day". Since the Hebrew holiday Passover coincides closely with the later Christian holiday of Easter, the Latin word came to be used for both occasions. The
Names of Easter as a description of the holiday than an actual name is Tensae (Ge'ez: ትንሣኤ) which means "to rise". While Fasika (ፋሲካ) is a more widespread and traditional term for Easter. Some non-Indo-European languages have unique etymologies for Easter. Some Slavic languages call it the Great Night, such as the Czech "Velikonoce" from "veliký" (great) + "-o-" + "noc" (night). In Hungarian, Easter is "húsvét"—literally, "taking the meat," a reference to traditional customs of abstaining entirely from eating meat during Lent. In Finnish language Easter is "Pääsiäinen" which implies 'release' or 'liberation'. The word was created by Finnish bishop and bible