massa

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English [edit]

Noun [edit]

massa (plural massas)

  1. (US, historical, colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of master, representing African American Vernacular English.

Usage notes [edit]

Associated with slavery.

Anagrams [edit]

Catalan [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

massa m, f (masculine and feminine plural masses)

  1. too much, too many

Adverb [edit]

massa

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

Noun [edit]

massa f (plural masses)

  1. mass
  2. dough

Crimean Tatar [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin massa - mass.

Noun [edit]

massa

  1. mass

Declension [edit]

    declension of massa
nominative massa
genitive massanıñ
dative massağa
accusative massanı
locative massada
ablative massadan

References [edit]

  • Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

Dutch [edit]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. mass, large amount
  2. (physics) mass
  3. A large group of people.
    Was er veel volk? — Massa's!
    Were there a lot of people? — Masses!
    opium voor de massa
    opium for the masses

Derived terms [edit]

Finnish [edit]

Noun [edit]

massa

  1. mass
  2. bulk

Declension [edit]

Declension of massa (type kala)
singular plural
nominative massa massat
genitive massan massojen
massain1
partitive massaa massoja
accusative massa
massan		 massat
inessive massassa massoissa
elative massasta massoista
illative massaan massoihin
adessive massalla massoilla
ablative massalta massoilta
allative massalle massoille
essive massana massoina
translative massaksi massoiksi
instructive – massoin
abessive massatta massoitta
comitative – massoineen
1) Rare.   

French [edit]

Verb [edit]

massa

  1. third-person singular past historic of masser

Italian [edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

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Noun [edit]

massa f (plural masse)

  1. mass (etymology2, all senses)

Related terms [edit]

Latin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (maza, “bread”).

Noun [edit]

massa (genitive massae); f, first declension

  1. mass, bulk (of material)
  2. load, burden
  3. dough
  4. lump

Inflection [edit]

Number Singular Plural
nominative massa massae
genitive massae massārum
dative massae massīs
accusative massam massās
ablative massā massīs
vocative massa massae

Portuguese [edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia pt

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

massa f (plural massas)

  1. dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
  2. a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects
  3. mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)
  4. multitude (a great mass of people)
  5. (uncountable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)
  6. (Brazil, slang, uncountable) money

Synonyms [edit]

Derived terms [edit]

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Adjective [edit]

massa m and f (plural massas; comparable)

  1. (Brazil, informal) cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)

Synonyms [edit]

Swedish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

massa c

  1. a mass (of people; the masses), a large crowd
  2. a lot (of), many
    en massa saker
    a lot of things
    massor av saker
    lots of things
  3. a mass (a substance)
  4. (physics) mass (as measured in kilograms)

Declension [edit]

Declension of massa
singular plural
common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative massa massan massor massorna
genitive massas massans massors massornas

Related terms [edit]

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