missal

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

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• (US, Canada) Homophone: missile

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.

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

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin missālis.

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

missal m (plural missals)

1. missal

• missa

• “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

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

missal m (plural missais)

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

• missa