missa

See also: missá and missä

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”).

Noun

missa

1. (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)

Anagrams

• Masis, Massi, Samis, Simas, Sisam, amiss, saims, simas

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin missum. Doublet of mesa, an inherited form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmi.sa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -isa

Noun

missa f (plural misses)

1. mass
2. (informal) church
3. (in the plural, slang) money

Derived terms

• anar a missa
• missa del gall
• missa negra
• missacantant
• missadient
• missaire
• misser

Related terms

• missal

Further reading

• “missa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse missa, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪsːa
• Hyphenation: mis‧sa

Verb

missa (third person singular past indicative misti, third person plural past indicative mist, supine mist)

1. (transitive) to lose

   eg misti mín blýantur

   I lost my pencil

2. (transitive) to miss a mark

   hann misti hvørt sítt kast

   he missed the mark every time

Conjugation

Conjugation of missa (group v-9nn)

infinitive	missa
supine	mist
	present	past
first singular	missi	misti
second singular	missir	misti
third singular	missir	misti
plural	missa	mistu
participle (a39)1	missandi	mistur
	imperative
singular	miss!
plural	missið!

¹Only the past participle being declined.

References

• "missa" at Sprotin.fo

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse missa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪsːa

Verb

missa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative missti, supine misst)

1. to lose

Conjugation

missa – active voice (germynd)

infinitive nafnháttur		að missa
supine sagnbót		misst
present participle lýsingarháttur nútíðar		missandi
		indicative framsöguháttur			subjunctive viðtengingarháttur
		present nútíð	past þátíð		present nútíð	past þátíð
singular	ég	missi	missti		missi	missti
	þú	missir	misstir		missir	misstir
	hann, hún, það	missir	missti		missi	missti
plural	við	missum	misstum		missum	misstum
	þið	missið	misstuð		missið	misstuð
	þeir, þær, þau	missa	misstu		missi	misstu
		imperative boðháttur
singular	þú	miss (þú), misstu
plural	þið	missið (þið), missiði1

¹ Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

• missa út úr sér

Italian

Verb

missa

1. inflection of missare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• massi, sisma

Latin

Etymology 1

In use by the 6th century. Presumably from the phrase īte missa est (“go, the dismissal is made”) (said by a priest to dismiss the congregation after the service), where missa is Late Latin and Vulgar Latin, for missiō (“dismissal”), from mittō (“to discharge, release”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change; to exchange; to remove”)) + -tiō (suffix attached to verbs forming nouns relating to actions or their results).

Alternatively, feminine of missus (“sent”)

An older derivation (16th century, attributed to Luther) adduced Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá, “unleavened bread; oblation”) (compare English matzo), but this is no longer considered a tenable etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪs.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmis.sa]

Noun

missa f (genitive missae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy

   Omni dominica sex missas facite ("Each Sunday, do six masses") Caesarius of Arles, Regula ad monachos, PL 67, 1102B.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	missa	missae
genitive	missae	missārum
dative	missae	missīs
accusative	missam	missās
ablative	missā	missīs
vocative	missa	missae

Derived terms

• missa prīvāta
• missa sōlemnis
• missāle

Descendants

• → Albanian: meshë
• → Basque: meza
• → Catalan: missa (learned)
• Dalmatian: masa
• → Dutch: mis
• Friulian: messe
• Italian: messa
• → Latvian: mesa
• Occitan: messa
• → Old English: mæsse, mæssa
  • Middle English: messe (in part)
    • English: Mass, mass
    • Scots: mess
• Old French: messe
  • Middle French: messe
    • French: messe
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: missa, misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa
  • Fala: misa
  • Galician: misa
  • Portuguese: missa (see there for further descendants)
• → Old High German: missa, messa
  • Middle High German: messe, misse
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Mess
    • German: Messe
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: misa
• → Polish: msza
• Romanian: misă, mesă
• Serbo-Croatian: misa
• Sardinian: miscia
• Sicilian: missa

Further reading

• “missa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “missa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "missa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “missa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
• missa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

missa

1. inflection of missus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

missā

1. ablative feminine singular of missus

Further reading

• mass (liturgy) – etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mista, miste
• misse (e-infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse missa. Akin to English miss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsːa/

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɪstɑ/, [mʉstɑ]

Verb

missa (present tense misser, past tense miste, past participle mist, passive infinitive missast, present participle missande, imperative miss)

1. to lose

References

• “missa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from missiō, from mittō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisa/, [ˈmi.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -isa

Noun

missa f (plural missas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) Mass
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 2 (facsimile):

     Eſta é de como ſta maria pareceu en toledo a ſant alifonſſo ⁊ deull ũa alua q̇ trouxe de paraẏſo con que diſſeſſe miſſa.

     This one is [about] how Holy Mary appeared to Saint Ildefonso in Toledo and gave him an alb from paradise to celebrate mass.

Related terms

• missal

Descendants

• Fala: misa
• Galician: misa
• Portuguese: missa (see there for further descendants)

References

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “missa”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mis?a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “missa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “missa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Old High German

Alternative forms

• messa

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from missiō, from mittō + -tiō.

Noun

missa f

1. (Roman Catholicism) Mass

Declension

Declension of missa (ō-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	missa	missā
accusative	missa	missā
genitive	missa	missōno
dative	missu	missōm

Descendants

• Middle High German: messe, misse
  • Central Franconian:
    • Hunsrik: Mess
  • German: Messe

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “missa”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), 6th edition

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *missijaną.

Verb

missa

1. to miss, to lose [with genitive]

Descendants

• Icelandic: missa
• Faroese: missa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: missa, mista; (dialectal) myssa
• Elfdalian: mista
• Old Swedish: mista
  • Swedish: mista, missa
• Old Danish: mistæ
  • Danish: miste, misse
    • Norwegian Bokmål: miste, misse
  • Scanian: mysta
• Gutnish: miste

Further reading

• “missa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “missa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "missa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
• missa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese missa, from Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin mittō (“to send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -isɐ
• Hyphenation: mis‧sa

Noun

missa f (plural missas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) mass (religion: celebration of the Eucharist)

Derived terms

• missa campal
• missa das almas
• missa de réquiem
• missa do galo
• não ir à missa com

Related terms

• missal

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: misa
• Papiamentu: misa
• → Kariri: missá (Kipeá)
• → Malay: misa
  • Indonesian: misa
  • → Iban: misa
• → Nheengatu: misa
• ⇒ Old Tupi: missa-pytuna
  • Nheengatu: misa-pituna

Etymology 2

Verb

missa

1. inflection of missar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “missa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “missa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse missa, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną. Doublet of mista.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

missa (present missar, preterite missade, supine missat, imperative missa)

1. to miss; to fail to hit (a target)
2. to miss; to be late for something
3. to miss; to forget about (something which happened or should be done)
4. to miss; to fail to attend
5. to miss; to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception
6. to overlook; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it

Conjugation

Conjugation of missa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	missa		missas
supine	missat		missats
imperative	missa		—
imper. plural1	missen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	missar	missade	missas	missades
ind. plural1	missa	missade	missas	missades
subjunctive2	misse	missade	misses	missades
present participle		missande
past participle		missad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• miss

References

• “missa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “missa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “missa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tarifit

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa (“table”).

Noun

missa f (plural missat, feminine equivalent tmissat, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵉⵙⵙⴰ)

1. table

   Synonym: ṭṭabra