missal

English

Etymology

From Old French messel (“book of the Mass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) Homophone: missile

Noun

missal (plural missals)

1. (religion) A prayer book; a church service (book).
   1. (Catholicism) A book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year.

Derived terms

• missalette

Translations

book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year

• Albanian: meshar (sq) m
• Catalan: missal (ca) m
• Dutch: missaal (nl) n, misboek (nl) n
• Finnish: messukirja
• French: missel (fr) m
• German: Missal (de) n, Messbuch (de) n
• Greek: λειτουργικό (el) n (leitourgikó)
• Irish: leabhar Aifrinn m
• Italian: messale (it) m
• Macedonian: ми́сал m (mísal), слу́жебник m (slúžebnik)
• Malayalam: തക്സ (ml) (taksa)
• Polish: mszał (pl) m
• Russian: миссал m (missal)
• Spanish: misal (es) m
• Swedish: mässbok c, missale (sv) n
• Welsh: misal m, llyfr offeren m

Anagrams

• Islams, Salims, Smails, misals, salmis, simals, smails

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin missālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [miˈsal]

Noun

missal m (plural missals)

1. missal

Related terms

• missa

Further reading

• “missal”, 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /miˈsaw/ [miˈsaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈsal/ [miˈsaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈsal/ [miˈsaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈsa.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: mis‧sal

Noun

missal m (plural missais)

1. (Christianity) missal (book containing prayers used during mass)

Related terms

• missa

Further reading

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