# assa
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈa.sa]

### Noun

assa f (plural asses)
* summer snowflake, a plant of species Leucojum aestivum

### Further reading

* “assa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Cornish
### Interjection

assa
* how

### References

* http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

## Kabyle
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Adverb

assa
* today

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* assa: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈas.sa/, [ˈäs̠ːä]
* assa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈas.sa/, [ˈäsːä]
* assā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈas.saː/, [ˈäs̠ːäː]
* assā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈas.sa/, [ˈäsːä]

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

assa
* inflection of assus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

#### Adjective

assā
* ablative feminine singular of assus

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

assā
* second-person singular present active imperative of assō

### References

* “assa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “assa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* assa 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)
* assa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “assa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “assa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian asse, from Latin axis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈasa/ (Milanese)

### Noun

assa f
* axis, axle

#### Derived terms

* assada
* asson

## Old English
### Etymology

Back-formation from assen, from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑs.sɑ/

### Noun

assa m
* ass, donkey

#### Descendants

* Middle English: asse
** English: ass
** Yola: ess

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “assa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈasa]

### Etymology 1

Univerbation of ass- (“out of”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

#### Determiner

assa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition; ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis; ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)
* out of his/her/its/their
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9$^d$24
    arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-silest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

#### Conjunction

assa
* Added between two copies of a comparative adjective to indicate a gradual increase of degree: and
    ferr assa ferrbetter and better
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12$^b$34a
    Nesso assa nesso, ↄdid·tánicc fessin.Nearer and nearer, until [Paul] has come to himself.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

assa
* Alternative form of asse (“easy”)

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 assa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
* अस्स (Devanagari script)
* অস্স (Bengali script)
* අස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
* အဿ or ဢသ်သ (Burmese script)
* อสฺส or อัสสะ (Thai script)
* ᩋᩔ (Tai Tham script)
* ອສ຺ສ or ອັສສະ (Lao script)
* អស្ស (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit अश्व (aśva), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

#### Noun

assa m
* a horse

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit अस्य (asya).

#### Adjective

assa
* masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ima (“this”)

#### Pronoun

assa
* masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ima (“this”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

assa
* second/third-person singular optative active of atthi (“to be”)

### Further reading

* Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “assa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.sɐ/
* Hyphenation: as‧sa
* Rhymes: -asɐ

### Verb

assa
* inflection of assar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative