Easter
the appellation given, with some small variation in the several languages and dialects, by the nations of Teutonic descent, to the festival kept in commemoration of our Saviour's resurrection. The Latin nations called the same feast by words derived from Lat.
Pascha; Gr. Pascha; and remotely from the Hebrew Pesachh, meaning the Passover, whence the French Pâque (O. Fr. Pask and Pasque); in Spanish, Pascua; in Port. Pascos; and in Italian Pasqua.
From the same source, also, the word Pasche has been introduced into Anglo- Saxon. Thus no distinctively Christian name exists for the resurrection festival, one of the two being of ethnic and the other of Jewish origin.