Pascal

A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.
  2. A surname transferred from the given name.

    1. The French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

  3. An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure.

Origin

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).

Forms

Pascals

Related

pascal Pascual

Derived

Pascal case Pascalian Pascal's law Pascal's theorem Pascal's triangle Pascal string Pascal's wager