| Pascal | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | pahs-KALL |
| Gender | masculine |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Latin |
| Meaning | "associated with Passover (or Easter)" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Pascale, Pascalle, Paschal, Paskal, Paschalis, Pascaline, Pasquale, Pasqual, Pascual, Pascoe, Pasco |
 |
Look up Pascal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Pascal (\p(a)-scal, pas-cal\) is a common masculine Francophone given name, cognate of Italian name Pasquale, Spanish name Pascual, Catalan name Pasqual. Pascal is common in French-speaking countries, Germany and Netherlands. The correct feminine form is Pascale, Pascalle or Pascalina. Pascal is also common as a surname [1] in France, and in Italy (in Piedmont, Aosta Valley and, as De Pascal, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia).
Pascal derives from the Latin paschalis or pashalis, which means "relating to Easter", from Latin pascha ("Passover", i.e. the Easter Passover"), Greek Πάσχα, Aramaic pasḥā, in turn from the Hebrew pesach, which means "to be born on, or to be associated with, Passover day". Since the Hebrew holiday Passover coincides closely with the later Christian holiday of Easter, the Latin word came to be used for both occasions.
The names Paschal, Pasqual, Pasquale, Pascale, Pascha, Paschalis, Pascual, Pascoe and Pasco are all variations of Pascal.
People with the name Pascal include:
Given name [link]
- Pascal, stagename of musician Pascal Redpath
- Pascal Beaupré, Canadian politician
- Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
- Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian Modernist composer
- Pascal Bieler, German football player
- Pascal Bonitzer, French screenwriter and actor.
- Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
- Pascal Broadley, English cricketer
- Pascal Bruckner, French writer.
- Pascal Caffet, French pastry confectioner and chocolate maker.
- Pascal Charbonneau, Canadian Grandmaster of chess
- Pascal Cygan, French footballer
- Pascal Covici, Romanian-American book publisher and editor
- Pascal Dupuis, Canadian professional ice hockey left winger
- Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
- Pascal Elbé, French actor and director
- Pascal Engel, French philosopher
- Pascal Etcheber, French author and philosopher
- Pascal Foucart, French artist
- Pascal Greggory, French actor
- Pascal Groß, German footballer
- Pascal Hens, German team handball player
- Pascal Johansen, French footballer
- Pascal Kané, French director and actor
- Pascal Kleiman, French musician
- Pascal Lainé, French writer
- Pascal Leclaire, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Pascal Lissouba, Congolese president
- Pascal Lorot, French economist and political scientist
- Pascal Mariini, French professional footballer
- Pascal Meunier, French documentary photographer
- Pascal Ohsé, French jazz trumpeter
- Pascal Pia, French writer, journalist, illustrator
- Pascal Poirier, Canadian author
- Pascal Portes, French former professional tennis player
- Pascal Quignard, French writer
- Pascal Richard, French-speaking Swiss former racing cyclist
- Pascal Renfer, Swiss footballer
- Pascal Rogé, French pianist
- Pascal Roller, German professional basketball player
- Pascal Sebah, French pioneer photographer
- Pascal Taché, Canadian politician
- Pascal Taskin, French harpsichord and piano maker
- Pascal Tayot, French judoka
- Pascal Tosi, Italian Jesuit
- Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter
- Pascal Vittori, New Caledonian politician
- Pascal White, a Belgian porn star
- Pascal Wollach, Canadian swimmer
- Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss football goalkeeper
- Joseph Pascal François, a Governor in French Colonial Empire
References [link]
- ^ "Pascal - Name Meaning and Origin". thinkbabynames.com. https://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Pascal. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
See also [link]
 |
This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. |
https://wn.com/Pascal_(given_name)
Given name
A given name (also known as a personal name, first name, forename, or Christian name) is a part of a person's full nomenclature. It identifies a specific person, and differentiates that person from other members of a group, such as a family or clan, with whom that person shares a common surname. The term given name refers to the fact that the name is bestowed upon, or given to a child, usually by its parents, at or near the time of birth. This contrasts with a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or gentile name), which is normally inherited, and shared with other members of the child's immediate family.
Given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner in informal situations. In more formal situations the surname is more commonly used, unless it is necessary to distinguish between people with the same surname. The idioms "on a first-name basis" and "being on first-name terms" allude to the familiarity of addressing another by a given name.
Relationship to other names
Pascal
Pascal or PASCAL may refer to:
People
- Saint Pascal, Paschal Baylon
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher
Places
In science and technology
Other uses
Pascal (surname)
Pascal is a French and an Italian surname.
Origin of the surname
Pascal is a patronymic surname that derives from the personal given name Pascal, from Latin Paschalis. In France Pascal is especially found in the Southern-Eastern area, in Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, while in Italy Pascal is found in Northern-Western area, in Piedmont, Aosta Valley and the variant De Pascal in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
People
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal is a historically influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
A derivative known as Object Pascal designed for object-oriented programming was developed in 1985.
History
Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth.
Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 and Oberon.
Initially, Pascal was largely, but not exclusively, intended to teach students structured programming. A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses. Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems. Newer Pascal compilers exist which are widely used.
Identifier
An identifier is a name that identifies (that is, labels the identity of) either a unique object or a unique class of objects, where the "object" or class may be an idea, physical [countable] object (or class thereof), or physical [noncountable] substance (or class thereof). The abbreviation ID often refers to identity, identification (the process of identifying), or an identifier (that is, an instance of identification). An identifier may be a word, number, letter, symbol, or any combination of those.
The words, numbers, letters, or symbols may follow an encoding system (wherein letters, digits, words, or symbols stand for (represent) ideas or longer names) or they may simply be arbitrary. When an identifier follows an encoding system, it is often referred to as a code or ID code. Identifiers that do not follow any encoding scheme are often said to be arbitrary IDs; they are arbitrarily assigned and have no greater meaning. (Sometimes identifiers are called "codes" even when they are actually arbitrary, whether because the speaker believes that they have deeper meaning or simply because he is speaking casually and imprecisely.)
Naming scheme
In computing, naming schemes are often used for objects connected into computer networks.
Naming schemes in computing
Server naming is a common tradition. It makes it more convient to refer to a machine by name than by its IP address.
CIA named their servers after states.
Server names may be named by their role or follow a common theme such as colors, countries, cities, planets, chemical element, scientists, etc. If servers are in multiple different geographical locations they may be named by closest airport code.
Such as web-01, web-02, web-03, mail-01, db-01, db-02.
Airport code example:
City-State-Nation example:
Thus, a production server in Minneapolis, Minnesota would be nnn.ps.min.mn.us.example.com, or a development server in Vancouver, BC, would be nnn.ds.van.bc.ca.example.com.
Large networks often use a systematic naming scheme, such as using a location (e.g. a department) plus a purpose to generate a name for a computer.
For example, a web server in NY may be called "nyc-www-04.xyz.net".
