massa

Alternative forms edit

• massah

Noun edit

massa (plural massas)

1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "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 notes edit

Associated with slavery.

Anagrams edit

• Assam, Samas, amass, msasa

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

massa (plural massas)

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

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

massa m or f (masculine and feminine plural masses)

1. too much, too many

Adverb edit

massa

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

   Synonym: (obsolete) trop

Noun edit

massa f (plural masses)

1. mass (quantity of matter)

   massa crítica ― critical mass

2. dough

   Synonym: pasta

Derived terms edit

• biomassa
• en massa
• massa d'aire

Related terms edit

• massiu

Further reading edit

• “massa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology edit

From Latin massa (“mass”).

Noun edit

massa

1. mass

Declension edit

References edit

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

Alternative forms edit

• masse (obsolete)

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.saː/

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• Hyphenation: mas‧sa

Noun edit

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

1. (physics) mass

   De massa van het object is 2 kilogram.

   The mass of the object is 2 kilograms.

2. mass, large amount

   Er was een grote massa mensen aanwezig bij het concert.

   There was a large mass of people present at the concert.

3. multitude, mass, throng, crowd

   Was er veel volk? — Massa's!

   Were there a lot of people? — Masses!

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

• Afrikaans: massa
• → Indonesian: massa

References edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Swedish massa, from Late Latin massa.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

massa

1. mass (quantity of matter cohering together to make one body)
2. mass, bulk (large quantity; bulk; magnitude; body; size)
3. (physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains)
4. paste (soft mixture)

   mantelimassa ― almond paste

5. (pharmacy) mass (medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

• “massa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams edit

• Assam

Pronunciation edit

• Audio

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Verb edit

massa

1. third-person singular past historic of masser

Noun edit

massa

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

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

massa

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology edit

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).

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈma(s).sa]
• Hyphenation: mas‧sa
• Homophone: masa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

Noun edit

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: (colloquial) berat

      3. (surgery) tumor: a palpable or visible abnormal globular structure.
   2. a large body of individuals, especially persons.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

• “massa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Noun edit

massa (plural massas)

1. mass, multitude or cluster

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

massa

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: màs‧sa

Noun edit

massa f (plural masse)

1. mass (all senses)
2. crowd

Related terms edit

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

Etymology edit

An early borrowing from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), possibly via Etruscan. It is uncertain whether the long /aː/ was carried over. Early Latin regularly rendered the Greek sound represented by ⟨ζ⟩ as /ss/; compare patrissō. In Imperial times, when Greek borrowings were entering Latin with ⟨z⟩, the old massa remained, never replaced by *māza.

Pronunciation edit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/, [ˈmäs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/, [ˈmäsːä]

Noun edit

massa f (genitive massae); first declension

1. mass, bulk (of material)

   Synonyms: moles, cŭmŭlus, acervus

2. load, burden

   Synonym: onus

3. dough
4. lump

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Descendants edit

References edit

• “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

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈma.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Homophone: maça
• Hyphenation: mas‧sa

• Audio (Oporto, Portugal)

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Noun edit

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

Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:massa.

Synonyms edit

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

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

• amassado
• amassar
• massas

Adjective edit

massa m or f (plural massas)

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

   Synonym: espetacular

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

Synonyms edit

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

Further reading edit

• massa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /masːa/

• Audio

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Noun edit

massa c

1. a mass (substance)
2. (physics) mass (as measured in kilograms)
3. a mass (of people), a large crowd
   1. ordinary people, the masses, etc.

      den stora massan / massorna

      the masses

4. a lot (of), many

   en massa saker

   a lot of things

   massor av saker

   lots of things

5. an intermediate good during paper or cardboard manufacture, like pulp

   Synonyms: (pulp) pappersmassa, (wood pulp) trämassa

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

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

Related terms edit

• massiv

References edit

• massa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• massa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• massa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)