massa
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
massa (plural massas)
- (US, historical, colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of master, representing African American Vernacular English.
Usage notesEdit
Associated with slavery.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
massa (masculine plural massos, feminine plural masses)
AdverbEdit
massa
- too (to an excessive degree)
- excessively, too much
NounEdit
massa f (plural masses)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “massa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
massa
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
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch masse.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
massa f or m (plural massa's, diminutive massaatje n)
- mass, large amount
- (physics) mass
- multitude, mass, throng
- Was er veel volk? — Massa's!
- Were there a lot of people? — Masses!
- Was er veel volk? — Massa's!
Derived termsEdit
- aardmassa
- cacaomassa
- massaal
- massacommunicatie
- massaconsumptie
- massademocratie
- massagraf
- massahuwelijk
- massahysterie
- massamedium
- massamiddelpunt
- massamoord
- massamoordenaar
- massaproductie
- massapsychose
- massaslachting
- massaspectrometer
- massaspectrometrie
- massasprint
- massatoerisme
- massavernietigingswapen
- massawerking
- massief
- mensenmassa
- watermassa
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Swedish massa, from Late Latin massa.
NounEdit
massa
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 | |
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
InterlinguaEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).
NounEdit
massa f (plural masse)
Related termsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
massa f (genitive massae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | massa | massae |
| Genitive | massae | massārum |
| Dative | massae | massīs |
| Accusative | massam | massās |
| Ablative | massā | massīs |
| Vocative | massa | massae |
DescendantsEdit
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
- 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
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
NounEdit
massa f (plural massas)
- (cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
- (cooking) pasta
- a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects
- (construction) mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)
- multitude (a great mass of people)
- (uncountable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)
- (Brazil, slang, uncountable) money
QuotationsEdit
For quotations of use 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
Related termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
massa m or f (plural massas, comparable)
- (Brazil, informal) cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)
- (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
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
massa c
- a mass (of people; the masses), a large crowd
- a lot (of), many
- en massa saker
- a lot of things
- massor av saker
- lots of things
- en massa saker
- a mass (a substance)
- (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 |