messe

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See also: Messe, mêsse, meße, and mæsse

Afrikaans

Noun

messe

  1. plural of mes

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Via Middle Low German misse, Old Saxon missa from Medieval Latin missa, a past participle of the verb mittō (“to send”).

Noun

messe c (singular definite messen, plural indefinite messer)

  1. (Christianity) Mass (eucharistic liturgy)
  2. (music) Mass (musical composition)
  3. fair (trade or art exhibition)
Declension
Declension of messe
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative messe messen messer messerne
genitive messes messens messers messernes
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

From English mess, from Medieval Latin missum, a past participle of the verb mittō (“to send”).

Noun

messe c (singular definite messen, plural indefinite messer)

  1. (military) mess (eating room)
Declension
Declension of messe
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative messe messen messer messerne
genitive messes messens messers messernes
Derived terms

References

Etymology 3

Derived form the first noun.

Verb

messe (past tense messede, past participle messet)

  1. to chant
Conjugation
Inflection of messe
present past
simple messer messede
perfect har messet havde messet
passive messes messedes
participle messende messet
imperative mes —
infinitive messe —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund messen —

References

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French messe, from Old French messe, from Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛs/
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Noun

messe f (plural messes)

  1. (Christianity) Mass (church service)

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

Noun

messe f (plural messis)

  1. (religion) mass

German

Pronunciation

Verb

messe

  1. inflection of messen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

metsz +‎ -je (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

Verb

messe

  1. third-person singular subjunctive present definite of metsz

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Verb

messe

  1. to measure

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin messem (“harvest”).

Pronunciation

Noun

messe f (plural messi)

  1. (literary) harvest, reaping, wheat, corn, crop
    Synonyms: mietitura, raccolto, biade
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: més‧se

Noun

messe f pl

  1. plural of messa

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: més‧se

Participle

messe f pl

  1. feminine plural of messo

Latin

Noun

messe

  1. ablative singular of messis

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French messe, from Latin missa. The variant misse was influenced directly by the Latin.

Noun

messe f

  1. mass (church service)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: mis
  • Limburgish: mès
  • West Flemish: messe

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a mixture of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse, both from Late Latin missa.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

messe (plural messes or messen)

  2. Mass (service where the Eucharist is performed)
  3. The Eucharist; Holy Communion (sacrament involving bread and wine).
  4. The act of going to Mass and participating.
Related terms
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

Noun

messe

  1. Alternative form of mes (“serving”)

Etymology 3

Verb

messe

  1. Alternative form of messen (“to serve”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French messe.

Noun

messe f (plural messes)

  1. (Christianity) mass

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Latin missa and Old Norse messa; from English mess (noun sense 3).

Noun

messe f or m (definite singular messa or messen, indefinite plural messer, definite plural messene)

  1. (Christianity) Mass (church service)
  2. a trade fair
  3. (military) a mess (mess room)

Derived terms

Verb

messe (imperative mess, present tense messer, passive messes, simple past and past participle messa or messet, present participle messende)

  1. to chant, intone (as in a Mass)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin missa and Old Norse messa; from English mess (noun sense 3).

Noun

messe f (definite singular messa, indefinite plural messer, definite plural messene)

  1. (Christianity) Mass (church service)
  2. a trade fair
  3. (military) a mess (mess room)

Derived terms

Verb

messe (present tense messar, past tense messa, past participle messa, passive infinitive messast, present participle messande, imperative messe/mess)

  1. to chant, intone (as in a Mass)

Alternative forms

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

Noun

messe oblique singular, f (oblique plural messes, nominative singular messe, nominative plural messes)

  1. (Christianity) mass

Descendants

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Pronoun

messe (emphatic)

  1. I, me
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 105b14
      Bed messe .i. no·comallaibthe ⁊ ro·mbad fírién insce Dǽ.
      That it would be me, i.e. that the word of God would be fulfilled and would be righteous.
Related terms
  • mé (non-emphatic)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

messe

  1. past participle of midithir

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
messe
also mmesse after a proclitic 		messe
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: mes‧se

Etymology 1

From Latin messem.

Noun

messe f (plural messes)

  1. (agriculture) harvest (gathered crops)
    Synonyms: colheita, safra
  2. (agriculture) a field whose crops are ready for harvest
  3. (figurative) harvest; reward (product of labour)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mess.

Noun

messe f (plural messes)

  1. (Portugal, military) mess; messroom

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch messe, from Latin missa.

Noun

messe f

  1. mass (church service)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English masse, from Anglo-Norman masse, from Latin massa.

Pronunciation

Noun

messe

  1. mass

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56
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