Αντίπασχα

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Γεια σας

Την περασμένη Κυριακή ήταν Αντίπασχα.

Αλλά γιατί το Αντί-; Τι θα πει «αντί» εδω;

Με χαιρετισμούς

Σίμων

 

[daeman]

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Γεια σου, Σίμωνα. :)

ΛΚΝ:
αντι-
πρόθημα το οποίο δηλώνει: [...] 5. χρόνο· αυτό που προηγείται χρονικά από αυτό που εκφράζει η πρωτότυπη λέξη: αντιπροπάππους· αντίπροχτες· αντιπροχτεσινός. || αυτό που χρονικά ακολουθεί ύστερα από αυτό που εκφράζει η πρωτότυπη λέξη: αντιμεθαύριο, αντίπασχα.

Γεωργακάς:
αντί-[SUP]3[/SUP] [...] ⓑ w. adv of time, by one unit before or after: αντιπροχτές 3 days ago, αντιμεθαύριο 3 days hence, τ' αντίχρονου 2 years fr now, αντιπροπέρυσι 3 years ago, αντίπασχα Sunday after Easter

http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/search.html?lq=αντί&sin=all


Another example I know of (been in a couple of friends' 2nd celebration) would be

αντίγαμος ο (ουσιαστικό) [ ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ :‹αντί + γάμος] γιορταστική συγκέντρωση που γίνεται την όγδοη μέρα μετά το γάμο, αλλιώς αντίχαρα, πιστρόφια, γυρίσματα, οχτάδια.

It's not very common anymore, though; usually found in local dialects.

 

[Earion]

Η Κυριακή που ακολουθεί την εορτή του Πάσχα ονομάζεται Κυριακή του Θωμά ή Κυριακή του Αντίπασχα. Κυριακή του Θωμά γιατί η ευαγγελική περικοπή της ημέρας αναφέρεται στην εμφάνιση του Αναστάντος Κυρίου στους μαθητές του και στην ψηλάφηση του Αποστόλου Θωμά, ο οποίος αμφέβαλλε για την Ανάσταση του Κυρίου. Κυριακή του Αντίπασχα γιατί ως η Κυριακή που ακολουθεί το Πάσχα ερμηνεύεται ως η «ογδόη ημέρα», δηλαδή η ημέρα της αιωνιότητας.

Από εδώ.

 

[nickel]

The term Octave of Easter may refer either to the eight-day period (Octave) from Easter Sunday until the Sunday following Easter, inclusive; or it may refer only to that Sunday after Easter, the Octave Day of Easter (sometimes known as Low Sunday). That Sunday is also known historically as St. Thomas Sunday (especially among Eastern Christians), Quasimodo Sunday and Quasimodogeniti. Since 1970 Low Sunday has been officially known as the Second Sunday of Easter (referring to the Easter season) in the Roman Catholic Church. On 30 April 2000, it was also designated as Divine Mercy Sunday by Pope John Paul II.

Etymology
[...]
The name Quasimodo came from the Latin text of the traditional Introit for this day, which begins "Quasi modo geniti infantes..." from 1 Peter 2:2, roughly translated as "As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile...". Literally, quasi modo means "as if in [this] manner".

[...]

Eastern churches
Antipascha is the name given to the eighth day of Pascha (Easter) in the Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox and certain Eastern Catholic churches.

According to the Synaxarium, "On this Sunday, the second Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the Antipascha, that is to say the re-dedication of the Resurrection of Christ, and also commemorate the event of the Holy Apostle Thomas' touching the wounds of Christ."
[...]

Literary note
Quasimodo, protagonist of the 1831 French novel Notre Dame de Paris (most often called in English The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo, was found abandoned on the doorsteps of Notre Dame Cathedral on the Sunday after Easter, AD 1467. In the words of the novel:

He [sc. archdeacon Claude Frollo, Quasimodo's adoptive father] baptized his adopted child and called him Quasimodo; whether it was that he chose thereby to commemorate the day when he had found him, or that he meant to mark by that name how incomplete and imperfectly molded the poor little creature was. Indeed, Quasimodo, one-eyed, hunchbacked, and bow-legged, could hardly be considered as anything more than an almost.​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_of_Easter

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