masse
Middle English
/ˈmas(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A lump, blob, or mass.
- A collection or mass of small objects that are fused together.
- (anatomy) blood believed in medieval times to be a mixture of the four humours
Etymology
Borrowed from masse derived from Latin massa (mass, dough, lump, bulk) derived from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (bread, barley-cake, lump, barley-bread cake, barley cake, barley bread).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μᾶζα
Gloss
bread, barley-cake, lump, barley-bread cake, barley cake, barley bread
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🥐 🥖 🥪
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mass English
- massy English
- maza English
- *massārius Latin
- *messa Latin
- Michael Latin
- Michaēl Latin
- massa Latin
- maza Latin
- messa Latin
- missa Latin
- māssa Latin
- Masse German
- massa Italian
- en masse French
- masse French
- ма́сса Russian
- masa Spanish, Castilian
- Μιχαήλ, Μῐχᾱήλ Ancient Greek
- Μοσσύνοικοι Ancient Greek
- μᾶζα Ancient Greek
- μᾶζᾰ Ancient Greek
- *maǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *meh₂ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- masse Norwegian Bokmål
- massa Swedish
- masse Norwegian Nynorsk
- mæsse Old English
- mæssedæg Old English
- mas Middle English
- massy Middle English
- messe Middle English
- messe Old French
- argamassa Catalan, Valencian
- massa Catalan, Valencian
- μάζα Greek (modern)
- masse Middle Dutch
- mass Old Irish
- massif Middle French
- massa Old Portuguese
- masse xno
- messe xno
- massa Crimean Tatar
- Μιχαήλ grc-koi
- מִיכָאֵל hbo