# missa
## English
### Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”).

### Noun

missa
* (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)

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

missa f (plural misses)
* mass
* (in the plural, slang) money

#### Related terms

* missal

### Further reading

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

## Faroese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪsːa/
* Rhymes: -ɪsːa
* Hyphenation: mis‧sa

### Verb

missa (third person singular past indicative misti, third person plural past indicative mist, supine mist)
* (transitive) to lose
    eg misti mín blýanturI lost my pencil
* (transitive) to miss a mark
    hann misti hvørt sítt kasthe missed the mark every time

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

### References

* "missa" at Sprotin.fo

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse missa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪsːa/
* Rhymes: -ɪsːa

### Verb

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

#### Derived terms

* missa út úr sér

## Italian
### Verb

missa
* inflection of missare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* massi, sisma

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmis.sa/, [ˈmɪs̠ːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmis.sa/, [ˈmisːä]

#### Noun

missa f (genitive missae); first declension
* (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.

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* missa prīvāta
* missa sōlemnis
* missāle

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: meshë
* → Basque: meza
* → Catalan: missa (learned)
* Dalmatian: masa
* → Dutch: mis
* Friulian: messe
* Italian: messa
* → Latvian: mesa
* Occitan: messa
* → Old English: mæsse, mæssa
** Middle English: messe (in part)
*** English: Mass, mass
*** Scots: mess
* Old French: messe
** Middle French: messe
*** French: messe
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: missa, misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa
** Fala: misa
** Galician: misa
** Portuguese: missa (see there for further descendants)
* → Old High German: missa, messa
** Middle High German: messe, misse
*** Central Franconian:
**** Hunsrik: Mess
*** German: Messe
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: misa
* → Polish: msza
* Romanian: misă, mesă
* Serbo-Croatian: misa
* Sardinian: miscia

#### References

* ↑ Fortescue, A. (1910). Liturgy of the Mass. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

#### Further reading

* “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, 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

missa
* inflection of missus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Participle

missā
* ablative feminine singular of missus

### Further reading

* mass (liturgy) – etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* mista, miste
* misse (e-infinitive)

### Etymology

From Old Norse missa. Akin to English miss.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪsːa/

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɪstɑ/, [mʉstɑ]

### Verb

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

### References

* “missa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmisa/, [ˈmi.s̺ɐ]
* Rhymes: -isa

### Noun

missa f (plural missas)
* (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.

#### Related terms

* missal

#### Descendants

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

### References

* 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

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* messa

### Etymology

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

### Noun

missa f
* (Roman Catholicism) Mass

#### Descendants

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

### References

* "missa" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *missijaną.

### Verb

missa
* to miss, to lose [with genitive]

#### Descendants

* 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

### Further reading

* “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, 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.sɐ/
* Rhymes: -isɐ
* Hyphenation: mis‧sa

#### Noun

missa f (plural missas)
* (Roman Catholicism) mass (religion: celebration of the Eucharist)

##### Derived terms

* missa campal
* missa das almas
* missa de réquiem
* missa do galo
* não ir à missa com

##### Related terms

* missal

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

missa
* inflection of missar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

missa (present missar, preterite missade, supine missat, imperative missa)
* to miss; to fail to hit (a target)
* to miss; to be late for something
* to miss; to forget about (something which happened or should be done)
* to miss; to fail to attend
* to miss; to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception
* to overlook; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Derived terms

* miss

### References

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

## Tarifit
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa (“table”).

### Noun

missa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵉⵙⵙⴰ, plural missat, feminine tmissat)
* table
    Synonym: ṭṭabra