# messa
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse messa, from Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛsːa]
* Rhymes: -ɛsːa

### Noun

messa f (genitive singular messu, plural messur)
* (religion, church) mass, service
* (religion, church) holiday
* (nautical) mess

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛsːa/
* Rhymes: -ɛsːa

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse messa.

#### Noun

messa f (genitive singular messu, nominative plural messur)
* mass (church service in which the Eucharist is celebrated)

##### See also

* guðsþjónusta

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

messa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative messaði, supine messað)
* to mass (celebrate mass)

##### Conjugation
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmes.sa/
* Rhymes: -essa
* Hyphenation: més‧sa

### Etymology 1

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.

#### Noun

messa f (plural messe) (often capitalized)
* mass (in religion)

##### Related terms

* messa di Mezzanotte

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

messa f (plural messe)
* setting, putting, laying
* (agriculture) sprout, shoot, bud

##### Derived terms

* messa a dimora
* messa a fuoco
* messa a terra
* messa in onda
* messa in opera
* messa in orbita
* messa in piega
* messa in scena, messinscena

#### Participle

messa
* feminine singular of messo

### Anagrams

* masse

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* messen (of noun)
* messet (of verb)

### Noun

messa m or f
* definite feminine singular of messe

### Verb

messa
* inflection of messe:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

messa f
* definite singular of messe

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmʲesa]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *missos +‎ -a (comparative suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Akin to mí-.

#### Adjective

messa
* comparative degree of olc: worse

##### Descendants

* Irish: measa
* Scottish Gaelic: miosa
* Manx: messey

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

messa
* genitive singular/dual of mess

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Latin missa.

### Noun

messa f (genitive messu, plural messur)
* mass, church service

#### Derived terms

* allraheilagramessa f (“Allhallow-mass”)
* allraheilagramessudagr m (“All Saints' day”)
* biskupsmessa f (“a mass celebrated by a bishop”)
* brúðmessa f (“marriage service”)
* dagmessa f (“daymass”)
* formessa f (“matins”)
* hámessa f (“highmass”)
* Jakobsmessa f (“St James' mass”)
* messudagr m (“mass-day, feast-day”)
* messudjákn m (“deacon, clerk”)
* messuembætti n (“office of the mass, divine service”)
* messufǫt n pl (“vestments”)
* messuklæði n pl (“vestments”)
* messumál n (“mass time”)
* messuserkr m (“surplice”)
* messuskrúði m (“vestments”)
* messusloppr m (“surplice”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: messa
* Norwegian Nynorsk: messe
* Swedish mässa c

### Verb

messa (singular past indicative messaði, plural past indicative messuðu, past participle messaðr)
* to say mass

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “messa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* messa 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)
* “messa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “messa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “messa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Swedish
### Etymology

mess +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* Homophone: mässa

### Verb

messa (present messar, preterite messade, supine messat, imperative messa)
* (colloquial) to send an SMS message, to text
    Synonym: [[sms:a#Swedish|sms:a]]

#### Conjugation
### References

* messa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* messa in Svensk ordbok (SO)

### Anagrams

* sames