"Pascal" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /pæsˈkæl/ [US], /ˈpæskæl/ [US] Forms: Pascals [plural]
Rhymes: -æl Etymology: From Latin Paschālis, from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha (“Easter”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). Doublet of Paschal. The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|Paschālis}} Latin Paschālis, {{doublet|en|Paschal}} Doublet of Paschal Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Pascal (countable and uncountable, plural Pascals)
  1. (countable) A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Pascal-en-name-IRfYicmk Categories (other): English given names, English male given names, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 19 31 32
  2. (countable) A surname transferred from the given name. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Pascal-en-name-7rrtY8Fk Categories (other): English surnames, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 19 31 32
  3. (countable) A surname transferred from the given name.
    The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: Pascal case, Pascalian, Pascal's law, Pascal's theorem, Pascal's triangle, Pascal string, Pascal's wager Related terms: pascal, Pascual
    Sense id: en-Pascal-en-name-O0qjeZAA Categories (other): English surnames, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 19 31 32 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 35 7 44 14
  4. (computer languages) An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (programming language): Паска́л (Paskál) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Pascal (english: Pascal) (Japanese), パスカル (Pasukaru) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-Pascal-en-name-732Afg~n Categories (other): Computer languages, English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Corsican translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Computer languages, Individuals, Philosophers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 16 18 53 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 20 20 22 38 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 19 31 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 11 17 17 22 14 9 9 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 16 17 23 15 11 7 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 20 19 23 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Corsican translations: 20 21 24 35 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 19 25 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 19 20 23 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 24 18 24 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 20 21 25 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 21 24 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 17 22 45 Disambiguation of Computer languages: 9 10 10 72 Disambiguation of Individuals: 14 16 16 54 Disambiguation of Philosophers: 14 17 17 53 Topics: computer-languages, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'programming language': 2 2 2 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (male given name): Паска́л (Paskál) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Pasquale (Corsican), Pasquali (Corsican), Pascal (French), Pascal (German), פֶּסַח (pésaḥ) (Hebrew), Pasquale (Italian), Pascoal (Portuguese), Pascual (Spanish) Translations (surname): Pascal (French)
Disambiguation of 'male given name': 38 31 31 0 Disambiguation of 'surname': 17 41 41 1

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.