messer
See also: Messer
English
Etymology 1
Noun
messer (plural messers)
- Someone who messes; agent noun of mess.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian messer, which is itself a truncated form of messere.
Noun
messer (plural messers)
- (obsolete, of an Italian person) Form of address equivalent to signore.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Baldassarre Castiglione to this entry?)
Italian
Etymology
Truncated form of messere.
Pronunciation
Noun
messer m
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
messer m or f
Verb
messer
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
messer f
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