Why “paschaltide” is a great word
PASCHALTIDE — [Noun] The liturgical season of fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. From Paschal (from Old French *paschal*, from Late Latin *paschalis*, from Latin *pascha* meaning "Passover, Easter", from Greek *pascha*, from Aramaic *pasha*, from Hebrew *pesaḥ* meaning "Passover") + -tide (from Old English *tīd* meaning "time, period"). Unlike "Lent," a penitential season of fasting, or "Easter Sunday," a single feast day, Paschaltide is the expansive, jubilant aftermath. It is the white vestments in a sun-drenched church, the relentless "Alleluia" sung week upon week, and the slow extinguishing of the Paschal candle at Pentecost—a measured and radiant dilation of joy against the relentless tide of ordinary time.