massa

See also: Massa, mässa, and mássá

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• massah

NounEdit

massa (plural massas)

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

Usage notesEdit

Associated with slavery.

AnagramsEdit

• Assam, amass, msasa

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Homophone: maça

AdjectiveEdit

massa (masculine plural massos, feminine plural masses)

1. too much, too many

AdverbEdit

massa

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

NounEdit

massa f (plural masses)

1. mass
2. dough

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Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin massa (“mass”).

NounEdit

massa

1. mass

DeclensionEdit

Declension of massa

nominative	massa
genitive	massanıñ
dative	massağa
accusative	massanı
locative	massada
ablative	massadan

ReferencesEdit

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

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

1. mass, large amount
2. (physics) mass
3. A large group of people.

   Was er veel volk? — Massa's!

   Were there a lot of people? — Masses!

Derived termsEdit

• massaproductie

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

massa

1. mass
2. bulk

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of massa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		massa	massat
genitive		massan	massojen
partitive		massaa	massoja
illative		massaan	massoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		massa	massat
accusative	nom.	massa	massat
	gen.	massan
genitive		massan	massojen massainrare
partitive		massaa	massoja
inessive		massassa	massoissa
elative		massasta	massoista
illative		massaan	massoihin
adessive		massalla	massoilla
ablative		massalta	massoilta
allative		massalle	massoille
essive		massana	massoina
translative		massaksi	massoiksi
instructive		—	massoin
abessive		massatta	massoitta
comitative		—	massoineen

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FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

massa

1. third-person singular past historic of masser

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

massa f (plural masse)

1. mass (all senses)
2. crowd

Related termsEdit

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

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/

NounEdit

massa f (genitive massae); first declension

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

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	massa	massae
genitive	massae	massārum
dative	massae	massīs
accusative	massam	massās
ablative	massā	massīs
vocative	massa	massae

DescendantsEdit

• Catalan: massa
• English: mass
• French: masse
• Italian: massa

• Portuguese: massa
• Romanian: masă
• Spanish: masa

ReferencesEdit

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “massa”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• 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

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “I handle; I knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.

PronunciationEdit

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/, /ˈma.sɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɐ/
• Homophone: maça

NounEdit

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

QuotationsEdit

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:massa.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

• em massa
• massa atómica
• massa bruta
• massa cinzenta

• massa corrida
• massa do sangue
• massa folhada
• massas

Related termsEdit

• amassado
• amassar
• massas

AdjectiveEdit

massa m, f (plural massas, comparable)

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

   Aprender línguas é muito massa! ― Learning languages is awesome!

SynonymsEdit

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

Further readingEdit

• massa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /masːa/

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

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)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of massa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	massa	massan	massor	massorna
Genitive	massas	massans	massors	massornas

Related termsEdit

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