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English

Etymology 1

In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb ????? (máss?, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ma?- (“to oil, knead”). Doublet of masa.The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

mass (countable and uncountable, plural masses)

1. (physical) Matter, material.
   1. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
   2. (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
   3. (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.
   4. (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
   5. (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
   6. (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
   7. (proscribed) Synonym of weight
2. A large quantity; a sum.
   1. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
   2. The principal part; the main body.
   3. A large body of individuals, especially persons.

   4. (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

(matter):

• weight

Translations

See also

• Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used)
• Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric ton

Verb

mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)

1. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
2. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.

Synonyms

• (to form into a mass): See also Thesaurus:assemble
• (to collect into a mass): See also Thesaurus:coalesce or Thesaurus:round up
• (to have a certain mass): weigh

Translations

Adjective

mass (not generally comparable, comparative masser, superlative massest)

1. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
2. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

Translations

Derived terms

• mass extinction

Etymology 2

From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s
• (US) IPA^(key): /mæs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæs/, /m??s/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

mass (plural masses)

1. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
2. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
3. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
4. A musical setting of parts of the mass.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     massing priests

Translations

Further reading

• mass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams

Võro

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *maksa, from Proto-Uralic *mëksa.

Noun

mass (genitive massa, partitive massa)

1. liver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian maks.

Noun

mass (genitive massu, partitive massu)

1. tax, payment

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Alternative forms

• massah

Noun

massa (plural massas)

1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Usage notes

Associated with slavery.

Anagrams

• Assam, Samas, amass, msasa

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “bread”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.s?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Homophone: maça

Adjective

massa (masculine plural massos, feminine plural masses)

1. too much, too many

Adverb

massa

1. too (to an excessive degree)
2. excessively, too much

Noun

massa f (plural masses)

1. mass (quantity of matter)

2. dough

Synonyms

• (dough): pasta

Derived terms

• biomassa
• en massa
• massa d'aire

Related terms

• massiu

Further reading

• “massa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin massa (“mass”).

Noun

massa

1. mass

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch masse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.sa?/
• Hyphenation: mas?sa

Noun

massa f or m (plural massa's, diminutive massaatje n)

1. mass, large amount
2. (physics) mass
3. multitude, mass, throng

   Was er veel volk? — Massa's!

   Were there a lot of people? — Masses!

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: massa

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish massa, from Late Latin massa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s??/, [?m?s???]
• Rhymes: -?s??
• Syllabification: mas?sa

Noun

massa

1. mass
2. bulk
3. paste (soft mixture)

Declension

Anagrams

• Assam

French

Verb

massa

1. third-person singular past historic of masser

Icelandic

Noun

massa

1. inflection of massi:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch massa, from Middle Dutch masse, from Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb ????? (máss?, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ma?- (“to oil, knead”). Standard spelling retain double s to avoid confusion with word masa (time).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?massa]
• Hyphenation: mas?sa
• Homophone: masa

Noun

massa (first-person possessive massaku, second-person possessive massamu, third-person possessive massanya)

1. mass:
   1. (physical) matter, material:
      1. a quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.
      2. (physics) the quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.

         Synonym: berat

      3. (surgery) a palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
   2. a large body of individuals, especially persons.

Further reading

• “massa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

massa (plural massas)

1. mass, multitude or cluster

Italian

Etymology

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mas.sa/

Noun

massa f (plural masse)

1. mass (all senses)
2. crowd

Related terms

• ammassare
• di massa
• massiccio
• massificare
• massivo
• mass media
• masso

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “bread”), perhaps through Etruscan, leading to a short vowel in the resulting Latin word, as otherwise degemination of the stem -ss- to a single -s- would be expected after a long vowel. After the letter z had become available for representing words from Greek with greater exactitude, this word remained massa, without being replaced by m?za.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mas.sa/, [?mäs??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mas.sa/, [?m?s??]

Noun

massa f (genitive massae); first declension

1. mass, bulk (of material)
2. load, burden
3. dough
4. lump

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• massa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• massa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• massa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• massa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• massa in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “bread”), from ????? (máss?, “I handle; I knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh??-.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: maça
• Hyphenation: mas?sa

Noun

massa f (plural massas)

1. (cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
2. (cooking) pasta
3. a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects
4. (construction) mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)
5. multitude (a great mass of people)
6. (uncountable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)
7. (Brazil, slang, uncountable) money

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:massa.

Synonyms

• (dough): pasta
• (concentration): aglomerado, concentração
• (mortar): argamassa, cafelo, rebouco
• (multitude): multidão, povo
• (mass): peso (colloquial)
• (money): dinheiro, grana, verba

Derived terms

Related terms

• amassado
• amassar
• massas

Adjective

massa m or f (plural massas, comparable)

1. (Brazil, informal) cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)
2. (Brazil, informal) great; amazing; awesome

Synonyms

• (amazing): espetacular
• (cool): fixe (Portugal), legal (Brazil)

Further reading

• massa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas?a/

Noun

massa c

1. a mass (of people; the masses), a large crowd
2. a lot (of), many

   en massa saker

   a lot of things

   massor av saker

   lots of things

3. a mass (a substance)
4. (physics) mass (as measured in kilograms)

Declension

Related terms

• folkmassa
• mandelmassa
• masscentrum
• massdemonstration
• massförstörelse
• massiv
• massmarknad
• massmedium
• massmord
• massrörelse
• nötmassa
• ostmassa
• pappersmassa
• tätningsmassa