English

Noun

Parasceve ‎(plural Parasceves)

1. (Christianity) The day of preparation before the (Jewish) Sabbath; Friday.
   • Mark 15:42 (Douay version)

     And when evening was now come, (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath,)‎

Italian

Noun

parasceve f ‎(plural parascevi)

1. The Friday before the Jewish sabbath

Latin

Alternative forms

• parasceūē

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰσκευή ‎(paraskeuḗ)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.rasˈkeː.weː/

Noun

parascēvē f ‎(genitive parascēvēs); first declension

(Late Latin)

1. (proper noun) Good Friday
2. (common noun) any Friday, without especial significance

Declension

First declension, Greek type.

Derived terms

• parascēvālis (New Latin)

Descendants

• English: Parasceve

References

• părăscēvē in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PARASCEVE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “părasceūē”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,114/1.
• “parasceve” on page 761/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)