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Is the name Easter Latin

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

No, the Latin for the Easter holiday is the word Pascha, a word derived from the Aramaic word for the Jewish festival of Passover.

The word Easter in modern English came from a word in Old German for the prechristian Germanic goddess of springtime.

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