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massa

See also: Massa, mässa, and mássá

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

massa (plural massas)

  1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎[1]:
      "All well, Massa Challenger, all well!" he cried. "Me stay here. No fear. You always find me when you want." His honest black face, and the immense view before us, which carried us half-way back to the affluent of the Amazon, helped us to remember that we really were upon this earth in the twentieth century, and had not by some magic been conveyed to some raw planet in its earliest and wildest state.

Usage notesEdit

Associated with slavery.

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AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch massa, from Middle Dutch masse, from Old French masse, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.sa/
  • Hyphenation: mas‧sa

NounEdit

massa (plural massas)

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

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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 (quantity of matter)
    massa crítica ― critical mass
  2. dough

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Further readingEdit

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]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

DutchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch masse, from Old French masse, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza).[1] The Latin spelling was adopted in the seventeenth century.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.saː/
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  • Hyphenation: mas‧sa

NounEdit

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

  1. (physics) mass
  2. mass, large amount
  3. multitude, mass, throng, crowd
    Was er veel volk? — Massa's!
    Were there a lot of people? — Masses!

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Afrikaans: massa
  • → Indonesian: massa

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Swedish massa, from Late Latin massa.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑsːɑ/, [ˈmɑs̠ːɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑsːɑ
  • Syllabification: mas‧sa

NounEdit

massa

  1. mass
  2. bulk
  3. paste (soft mixture)
    mantelimassa ― almond paste

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
Possessive forms of massa (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person massani massamme
2nd person massasi massanne
3rd person massansa

CompoundsEdit

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

massa

  1. third-person singular past historic of masser

IcelandicEdit

NounEdit

massa

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

IndonesianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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 μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”). Standard spelling retain double s to avoid confusion with word masa (time).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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.

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

massa (plural massas)

  1. mass, multitude or cluster

ItalianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

massa f (plural masse)

  1. mass (all senses)
  2. crowd

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (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 māza.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

massa f (genitive massae); first declension

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

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

Descendants

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.sɐ/, [ˈma.sɐ]

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. (slang, uncountable) money

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:massa.

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AdjectiveEdit

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

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

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