Quasimodo

• IPA^(key): /ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/

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

Quasimodo (plural Quasimodos)

2. (Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.

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

   Holonyms: Easter Week < Eastertide < Octave of Easter < Eastertime < calendar

   Comeronyms: Easter Sunday, Easter Day, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday, Easter Thursday, Easter Friday, Easter Saturday

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.

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.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Quasimodo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”). This was probably used as a nickname for foundlings.

Quasimodo m or f by sense

1. a surname from Latin [in turn transferred from the nickname]

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025