masse
French
noun
Definitions
- a paste, a dough
- large amount or quantity of something; mass
- something perceived as a whole, without distinguishing its parts
- a sum or combination of things treated as a whole
- a majority, especially of people
- an archaic unit of count
- (finance) a sum of allotted money
- (physics) mass
- (electronics) earth, ground (of e.g. a plug)
Etymology
Derived from Latin massa (mass, dough, lump, bulk) derived from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (bread, barley-cake, lump, barley-bread cake, barley cake, barley bread).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μᾶζα
Gloss
bread, barley-cake, lump, barley-bread cake, barley cake, barley bread
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- massif English
- maza English
- *massārius Latin
- *mattea Latin
- *mattearellum Latin
- massa Latin
- mattia Latin
- maza Latin
- māssa Latin
- Masse German
- Massiv German
- massiv German
- ammazzare Italian
- massa Italian
- mazza Italian
- mazzafrusto Italian
- mazziere Italian
- en masse French
- massif French
- massique French
- massivement French
- minéralomasse French
- supermassif French
- ма́сса Russian
- маз Russian
- masa Spanish, Castilian
- masivo Spanish, Castilian
- Μοσσύνοικοι Ancient Greek
- μᾶζα Ancient Greek
- μᾶζᾰ Ancient Greek
- *maǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *meh₂ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- masse Norwegian Bokmål
- massiv Norwegian Bokmål
- maça Portuguese
- maçada Portuguese
- mass- Swedish
- massa Swedish
- masyw Polish
- masse Norwegian Nynorsk
- massiv Norwegian Nynorsk
- argamassa Catalan, Valencian
- massa Catalan, Valencian
- maça Catalan, Valencian
- masivo Galician
- maza Galician
- mazarelo Galician
- μάζα Greek (modern)
- masse Middle Dutch
- mass Old Irish
- massif Middle French
- massa Old Portuguese
- maça Old Portuguese
- маз Ukrainian
- маз Belarusian
- masivu Asturian
- ម៉ាស Central Khmer
- masse xno
- massa Crimean Tatar
- massiv Crimean Tatar