missa
English
noun
Definitions
- (music) 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)
Etymology
Derived from Latin missa (dismissed).
Origin
Latin
missa
Gloss
dismissed
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *messa Latin
- messa Latin
- missa Latin
- missum Latin
- missus Latin
- mittere Latin
- mittō Latin
- messa Italian
- misa Spanish, Castilian
- messe Norwegian Bokmål
- missa Portuguese
- msza Polish
- messe Norwegian Nynorsk
- mæsse Old English
- messa Old Norse
- messe Old French
- missa Catalan, Valencian
- messe Middle Dutch
- misse Middle Dutch
- chirihha Old High German
- missa Old High German
- meshë Albanian
- missa Old Portuguese
- 彌撒 Chinese
- missa Old Saxon
- 미사 Korean
- мьша Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- messe Friulian
- masa Dalmatian