massa

English

Alternative forms

• massah

Noun

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

Associated with slavery.

Anagrams

• Assam, Samas, amass, msasa

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

massa (plural massas)

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -asa
• Homophone: maça

Adjective

massa m or f (masculine and feminine plural masses)

1. too much, too many

Adverb

massa

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

   Synonym: (obsolete) trop

Noun

massa f (plural masses)

1. mass (quantity of matter)

   massa crítica ― critical mass

2. dough

   Synonym: pasta

Derived terms

• biomassa
• en massa
• massa d'aire

Related terms

• massiu

Further reading

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

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin massa (“mass”).

Noun

massa

1. mass

Declension

References

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

• masse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch masse, from Old French masse, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza). The Latin spelling was adopted in the seventeenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.saː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: mas‧sa

Noun

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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: massa
• → Indonesian: massa

References

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish massa, from Late Latin massa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Further reading

• “massa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

• Assam

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

massa

1. third-person singular past historic of masser

Icelandic

Noun

massa

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

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

massa

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mas‧sa
• Homophone: masa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

Noun

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

Related terms

Further reading

• “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.

Interlingua

Noun

massa (plural massas)

1. mass, multitude or cluster

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

massa

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

massa f (plural masse)

1. mass (all senses)
2. crowd

Related terms

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

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• “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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Homophone: maça
• Hyphenation: mas‧sa

• Audio (Oporto, Portugal)

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Noun

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:massa.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• amassado
• amassar
• massas

Adjective

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

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

Further reading

• massa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /masːa/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• massiv

References

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