mensage

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• mensaie, mensaje (alternative forms)
• menssage (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan messatge or Old French message, both from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /menˈsaʒe/

Noun

mensage m (plural mensages)

1. message
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v:

     Enbiarõle mẽſage aioſep. E dẏzierõ le to padre comẽdo ante q̃ murieſſe. E dixo aſſi dizredes aioſep. Priegot q̃ perdones el ẏerro ato^s ermanos. e ſo peccado del mal quet fizierõ. Agora perdona a ſieruo^s del dios de to padre. Ploro ioſep quãt eſtol fablarõ.

     [So] they sent a message to Joseph, and they said to him, “Your father commanded before he died, and he said thus, ‘You shall say to Joseph: I beg you forgive the transgression of your brothers, and their sin of the wrong they did to you.’ Now, forgive the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke this to him.

Derived terms

• mensagero

Descendants

• Spanish: mensaje