Quasimodo

See also: quasimodo and quasímodo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/

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Etymology 1

From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).

Noun

Quasimodo (plural Quasimodos)

1. (Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter.

Synonyms

• Antipascha
• Divine Mercy Sunday
• Dominica in albis
• Feast of the Divine Mercy
• Low Sunday
• Octave Day of Easter
• Octave of Easter
• Quasimodogeniti
• Quasimodo Sunday
• Renewal Sunday
• Second Sunday of Easter
• St. Thomas Sunday
• Thomas Sunday
• White Sunday

 

Translations

day

• Bulgarian: Томина неделя f (Tomina nedelja)
• German: Weißer Sonntag (de) m, Klein-Ostertag m, Kleinostern n, Barmherzigkeitssonntag m
• Italian: quasimodo m
• Portuguese: quasímodo m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: małe jatšy pl

Etymology 2

From the hunchback character Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The name of the character is derived from the first etymology.

Noun

Quasimodo (plural Quasimodos)

1. A surfing trick performed while crouching.
   • 2008 August 21, “The old school survives at the Olympics, amid new events”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Italian

Proper noun

Quasimodo m or f by sense

1. a surname

   Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer