massa

Portuguese

/ˈma.sa/, /ˈma.sɐ/

noun
Definitions
  • (cooking) dough mix of flour and other ingredients
  • (cooking) pasta
  • a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects
  • (construction) mortar mixture for bonding bricks
  • multitude a great mass of people
  • (uncountable) mass quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume
  • (Brazil) money

Etymology

Derived from Old Portuguese massa derived from Latin massa (mass, dough, lump, bulk) derived from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (bread, barley-cake, lump, barley-bread cake, barley cake, barley bread) derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (knead).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*meh₂ǵ-

Gloss

knead

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

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