messe
Middle English
/ˈmɛs(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Mass service where the Eucharist is performed
- The Eucharist; Holy Communion sacrament involving bread and wine.
- The act of going to Mass and participating.
Etymology
Derived from messe derived from Old English mæsse (mass, massEtymology 2, church festival) derived from Latin missa (dismissed).
Origin
Latin
missa
Gloss
dismissed
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Childermas English
- Christmas English
- Mass English
- missa English
- *messa Latin
- messa Latin
- missa Latin
- missum Latin
- missus Latin
- mittere Latin
- mittō Latin
- messa Italian
- misa Spanish, Castilian
- messe Norwegian Bokmål
- missa Portuguese
- msza Polish
- messe Norwegian Nynorsk
- Cristes mæsse Old English
- mæsse Old English
- mæssedæg Old English
- Childermasse day Middle English
- Criste Middle English
- Cristemasse Middle English
- childre Middle English
- day Middle English
- masse Middle English
- messen Middle English
- messa Old Norse
- messe Old French
- messiier Old French
- missa Catalan, Valencian
- messe Middle Dutch
- misse Middle Dutch
- chirihha Old High German
- missa Old High German
- meshë Albanian
- missa Old Portuguese
- 彌撒 Chinese
- missa Old Saxon
- 미사 Korean
- мьша Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- messe Friulian
- messe xno
- masa Dalmatian