missa

From Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”).

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)

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

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

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

missa f (plural misses)

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

• missal

• “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

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

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

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

• "missa" at Sprotin.fo

From Old Norse missa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪsːa

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

1. to lose

• missa út úr sér

missa

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

• massi, sisma

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).

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.^[1]

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

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.

First-declension noun.

• missa prīvāta
• missa sōlemnis
• missāle

• “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’s 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

missa

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

missā

1. ablative feminine singular of missus

• mass (liturgy) – etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mista, miste
• misse (e-infinitive)

From Old Norse missa. Akin to English miss.

• IPA^(key): /mɪsːa/

• IPA^(key): /²mɪstɑ/, [mʉstɑ]

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

1. to lose

• “missa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa

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

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

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.

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

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “missa”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mis?a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “m[ijys+a]”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “missa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

• messa

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

missa f

1. (Roman Catholicism) Mass

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

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

From Proto-Germanic *missijaną.

missa

1. to miss, to lose [with genitive]

• 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

• “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’s 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

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

• Rhymes: -isɐ
• Hyphenation: mis‧sa

missa f (plural missas)

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

• Kabuverdianu: misa
• Papiamentu: misa
• → Malay: misa
  • Indonesian: misa
  • → Iban: misa
• → Nheengatu: misa
• ⇒ Old Tupi: missa-pytuna
  • Nheengatu: misa-pituna

missa

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

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

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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

• miss

• missa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• missa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• missa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish mesa (“table”).

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

1. table

   Synonym: ṭṭabra