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)

1. (Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter.

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