missa – Latin noun declension

Noun: missa
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singular	missa
Plural	missae

Genitive

Singular	missae
Plural	missārum

Dative

Singular	missae
Plural	missīs

Accusative

Singular	missam
Plural	missās

Ablative

Singular	missā
Plural	missīs

Vocative

Singular	missa
Plural	missae

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like missa

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

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).
2. Alternatively, feminine of missus (“sent”)
3. 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.

Verbs referencing "missa"

Dutch Nouns mis, Old Norse Nouns messa, German Nouns Messe, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns messe, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns messe, German Nouns Kirmes, Swedish Nouns mässa, Russian Nouns месса, Romanian Nouns misă.

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