messe

See also: Messe, mêsse, and meße

Afrikaans

Noun

messe

1. plural of mes

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French

Etymology

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)

Further reading

• “messe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• semés, sèmes

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Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

Noun

messe f (plural messis)

1. (religion) mass

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsə/

Verb

messe

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of messen.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of messen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of messen.

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesə/

Verb

messe

1. to measure

Derived terms

• Messer

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Italian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.se/, [ˈmɛs̪s̪e]
• Rhymes: -ɛsse
• Hyphenation: mès‧se

Etymology

From Latin messem, accusative of messis (“harvest”).

Noun

messe f (plural messi)

1. (literary) harvest, reaping, wheat, corn, crop

   Synonyms: mietitura, raccolto, biade

Related terms

• mietere

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ˈmes.se/, [ˈmes̪s̪e]
• Hyphenation: més‧se
• Rhymes: -esse

Etymology 1

From Late Latin missae, plural of missa.

Noun

1. plural of messa

Etymology 2

From Latin missae, feminine plural of missus, perfect passive participle of mittō.

Participle

messe

1. feminine plural of messo

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) messe

1. ablative singular of messis

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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

• misse

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “messe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “messe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mas, masse, mase, measse, mæsse, messy, misse, mese, mes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs(ə)/

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

• Childermasse day
• Cristemasse
• messen

Descendants

• English: Mass, mass
• Scots: mess

References

• “messe (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Old French mes and Old English mēse.

Noun

messe

1. Alternative form of mes (“serving”)

Etymology 3

From mes (noun).

Verb

messe

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French messe.

Noun

messe f (plural messes)

1. (Christianity) mass

Descendants

• French: messe

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Norwegian Bokmål

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

• båtmesse
• rekviemmesse

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

• “messe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “messe_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “messe_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “messe_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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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

• båtmesse
• rekviemmesse

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

• messa

References

• “messe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• mese

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

• Middle French: messe
  • French: messe

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲesʲe/

Etymology 1

Pronoun

messe (emphatic)

1. I, me

Related terms

• mé (non-emphatic)

Descendants

• Irish: mise
• Manx: mish
• Scottish Gaelic: mise

Participle

messe

1. past participle of midithir

Mutation

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin messis, messem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsɨ/
• Hyphenation: mes‧se

Noun

messe f (plural messes)

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

Synonyms

• (gathered crops): colheita, safra

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West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch messe, from Latin missa.

Noun

messe f

1. mass (church service)