Etymology

From Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:English terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#MISSA missa (“mass”).

Noun

missaCategory:English lemmas#MISSACategory:English nouns#MISSACategory:English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals#MISSACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. (musicCategory:en:Music#MISSA) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)

Anagrams

• Masis, Massi, Samis, Simas, Sisam, amiss, saims, simas

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin#MISSACategory:Catalan learned borrowings from Ecclesiastical Latin#MISSACategory:Catalan terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#MISSA missa (“mass”), from LatinCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#MISSA missum. Doublet of mesaCategory:Catalan doublets#MISSA, an inherited form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.sə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmi.sa]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

  Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#MISSA
• Rhymes: -isaCategory:Rhymes:Catalan/isa#MISSACategory:Rhymes:Catalan/isa/2 syllables#MISSA

Noun

missa f (plural misses)Category:Catalan lemmas#MISSACategory:Catalan nouns#MISSACategory:Catalan countable nouns#MISSACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Catalan feminine nouns#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. mass
2. (informalCategory:Catalan informal terms#MISSA) church
3. (in the plural, slangCategory:Catalan slang#MISSA) money

Further reading

• “missa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse#MISSACategory:Faroese terms derived from Old Norse#MISSA missa, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Faroese terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MISSACategory:Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MISSA *missijaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsːa/Category:Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA
• Rhymes: -ɪsːaCategory:Rhymes:Faroese/ɪsːa#MISSACategory:Rhymes:Faroese/ɪsːa/2 syllables#MISSA
• Hyphenation: mis‧sa

Verb

missa (third person singular past indicative misti, third person plural past indicative mist, supine mist)Category:Faroese lemmas#MISSACategory:Faroese verbs#MISSACategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. (transitiveCategory:Faroese transitive verbs#MISSA) to lose

   eg misti mín blýantur

   I lost my pencil

   Category:Faroese terms with usage examples#MISSA

2. (transitiveCategory:Faroese transitive verbs#MISSA) to miss a mark

   hann misti hvørt sítt kast

   he missed the mark every time

   Category:Faroese terms with usage examples#MISSA

References

• "missa" at Sprotin.fo

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse#MISSACategory:Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse#MISSA missa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsːa/Category:Icelandic 2-syllable words#MISSACategory:Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA
• Rhymes: -ɪsːaCategory:Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪsːa#MISSACategory:Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪsːa/2 syllables#MISSA

Verb

missa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative missti, supine misst)Category:Icelandic lemmas#MISSACategory:Icelandic verbs#MISSACategory:Icelandic weak verbs#MISSACategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. to lose

Verb

missaCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#MISSACategory:Italian verb forms#MISSACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. inflection of missare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• massi, sisma

Etymology 1

In use by the 6th century. Presumably from the phrase īte missa est (“go, the dismissal is made”) (said by a priest to dismiss the congregation after the service), where missa is Late Latin and Vulgar Latin, for missiō (“dismissal”), from mittō (“to discharge, release”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#MISSACategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MISSA *meyth₂- (“to change; to exchange; to remove”)) + -tiō (suffix attached to verbs forming nouns relating to actions or their results).

Alternatively, feminine of missus (“sent”)

An older derivation (16th century, attributed to Luther) adduced Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá, “unleavened bread; oblation”) (compare English matzo), but this is no longer considered a tenable etymology.^[1]

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• mass (liturgy) – etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• mista, miste
• misse (e-infinitive)

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse#MISSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse#MISSA missa. Akin to English miss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsːa/Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɪstɑ/, [mʉstɑ]Category:Norwegian terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA

Verb

missa (present tense misser, past tense miste, past participle mist, passive infinitive missast, present participle missande, imperative miss)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#MISSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#MISSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

1. to lose

References

• “missa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from missiō, from mittō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisa/, [ˈmi.s̺ɐ]Category:Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#MISSA
• Rhymes: -isaCategory:Rhymes:Old Galician-Portuguese/isa#MISSACategory:Rhymes:Old Galician-Portuguese/isa/2 syllables#MISSA

Noun

missa f (plural missas)Category:Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas#MISSACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese nouns#MISSACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Old Galician-Portuguese feminine nouns#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. (Roman CatholicismCategory:roa-opt:Roman Catholicism#MISSA) Mass
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 2 (facsimile):

     Eſta é de como ſta maria pareceu en toledo a ſant alifonſſo ⁊ deull ũa alua q̇ trouxe de paraẏſo con que diſſeſſe miſſa.

     This one is [about] how Holy Mary appeared to Saint Ildefonso in Toledo and gave him an alb from paradise to celebrate mass.

     Category:Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations#MISSA

References

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “missa”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mis?a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “missa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “missa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Alternative forms

• messa

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from missiō, from mittō + -tiō.

Noun

missa fCategory:Old High German lemmas#MISSACategory:Old High German nouns#MISSACategory:Old High German entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Old High German feminine nouns#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. (Roman CatholicismCategory:goh:Roman Catholicism#MISSA) Mass

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “missa”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), 6th edition

Etymology

From Proto-GermanicCategory:Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MISSACategory:Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MISSA *missijaną.

Verb

missaCategory:Old Norse lemmas#MISSACategory:Old Norse verbs#MISSACategory:Old Norse entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. to miss, to lose [with genitive]

Further reading

• “missa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “missa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "missa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• missa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#MISSACategory:Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#MISSA missa, from Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#MISSA missa (“mass”), from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#MISSA mittō (“to send”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MISSA *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “missa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “missa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#MISSACategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#MISSA missa, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MISSACategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MISSA *missijaną. Doublet of mistaCategory:Swedish doublets#MISSA.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Swedish terms with audio pronunciation#MISSA

Verb

missa (present missar, preterite missade, supine missat, imperative missa)Category:Swedish lemmas#MISSACategory:Swedish verbs#MISSACategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. to miss; to fail to hit (a target)
2. to miss; to be late for something
3. to miss; to forget about (something which happened or should be done)
4. to miss; to fail to attend
5. to miss; to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception
6. to overlook; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it

References

• “missa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “missa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “missa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Etymology

Borrowed from SpanishCategory:Tarifit terms borrowed from Spanish#MISSACategory:Tarifit terms derived from Spanish#MISSA mesa (“table”).

Noun

missa f (plural missat, feminine equivalent tmissat, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵉⵙⵙⴰ)Category:Tarifit lemmas#MISSACategory:Tarifit nouns#MISSACategory:Tarifit entries with incorrect language header#MISSACategory:Tarifit feminine nouns#MISSACategory:Pages with entries#MISSACategory:Pages with 13 entries#MISSA

1. table

   Synonym: ṭṭabra