Definition of "pascha" []

• The Jewish feast of the Passover (noun)
• The Christian festival of Easter (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It may, however, be noted that in Tertullian the word pascha clearly designates not the Sunday alone but rather a period, and in particular. the day of the"
• "(The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible-in Acts 12: 4-where it is flagrantly mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which should be translated "Passover," as most versions render it.)"
• "When the Authorized Version (1611) was formed, the word "passover" was used in all passages in which this word pascha occurred, except in Act 12: 4."