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English

Etymology

From Middle English massy; equivalent to mass +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæsi/
• Rhymes: -æsi

Adjective

massy (comparative massier, superlative massiest)

1. Heavy; massive.
   • 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

     Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 627 to 635.

   • 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic

     When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro

   • 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics, volume 1, ?ISBN, abstract, pages 70-73

     We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.

Related terms

• massic

Noun

massy

1. Pronunciation spelling of mercy.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

     "But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...

2. Pronunciation spelling of master.

Anagrams

• SyAMs, Sysmä, amyss, my ass

Middle English

Etymology 1

From masse +? -y.

Alternative forms

• masse, mascy, masie, masy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?masi?/, /?mase?/

Adjective

massy

2. weighty, massy, having great weight.
3. uncontaminated, unalloyed.
4. Not hollow; lacking an internal cavity.
5. tough, firm, sturdy
6. (rare) Unsculpted; not given a shape, primordial.

Related terms

• massif

Descendants

• English: massy
• Scots: massie

References

• “mass?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

From a mixture of Old French messiier and Old English mæssian.

Verb

massy

1. Alternative form of messen (“to hold mass”)

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