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Springy Italian Vocabulary
Easter’s date changes every year: it occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox – so somewhere between 22 March and 25 April.
The week immediately preceding Easter (Sunday to Saturday) is called Holy Week. Here’s all the Italian vocabulary you need to celebrate this Christian period of renewal.
| Happy Easter! | Buona Pasqua! | |
| Easter | la Pasqua | |
| Passover | Pasqua ebraica | |
| spring | la primavera | |
| Lent | la Quaresima | |
| Holy Week | la Settimana Santa | |
| Palm Sunday | Domenica delle Palme | |
| Shrove Tuesday | Martedì grasso | |
| Ash Wednesday | Mercoledì delle Ceneri | |
| Maundy Thursday | Giovedì Santo | |
| Good Friday | Venerdì Santo | |
| Easter Sunday | Domenica di Pasqua | |
| Easter Day | il giorno di Pasqua | |
| Easter Monday | Lunedì di Pasqua |
Italian Easter Food and Traditions
| to bless | benedire | |
| chick | il pulcino | |
| chocolate | il cioccolato | |
| church | la chiesa | |
| dove | la colomba | |
| Easter bonnet | il cappellino pasquale | |
| Easter egg | l’uovo di Pasqua | |
| fast day | il giorno di digiuno | |
| lamb | l’agnello | |
| nest | il nido | |
| palm leaves | le foglie di palma | |
| Pope | il Papa | |
| pork | il maiale | |
| priest | il sacerdote | |
| rabbit | il coniglio |
Related lessons
Italian lesson plans
- Easter activity book (Worksheets, pre-K – 1st grade)
- Easter parade image (Worksheet, 1st – 2nd grade)
- Happy Easter: words (Lesson plan, 2nd – 4th grade)
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