Mass

mass maß Maß Mass. måss English + (liturgy) Pronunciation en /ˈmæs/ en en-us-mass.ogg US en æs 1 en mass Etymology 1 en Mass#Etymology 1, mass#Etymology 2 en ine-pro *mey- (change) From en enm messe, from en ang mæsse and en fro messe, both from en la-lat missa, from en la mittō to send, dismiss, compare fr messe. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with the words: "Ite, missa est", the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. Compare en Christmas, en Lammas, en missal. en missa. Noun ~ en Roman Catholic Church The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine. en In the Roman Catholic Mass the offertory is called "Preparation of the Gifts". A similar ceremony offered by a number of Christian churches. en music A musical composition set to portions, or all, of the Mass. Derived terms en dry mass Fore-Mass High Mass Low Mass Mass bell Red Mass Traditional Latin Mass Translations Roman Catholic Church: the principal liturgical service Albanian: sq meshë f Arabic: ar قُدَّاس m Armenian: hy պատարագ Belarusian: be імша́ f Breton: br Oferenn f Bulgarian: bg ме́са f Catalan: ca missa f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 彌撒 mísā Czech: cs mše f Dalmatian: dlm masa f Danish: da messe Dutch: nl dienst m, nl gebedsdienst m, nl mis m f, nl misdienst f Esperanto: eo meso Estonian: et missa Finnish: fi messu French: fr messe f Friulian: fur messe f Galician: gl misa f Georgian: ka მესა German: de Messe f Greek: el λειτουργία f Hebrew: he מִיסָה f Hungarian: hu mise, hu szentmise Hunsrik: hrx Mess f Indonesian: id misa Irish: ga Aifreann m Italian: it messa f Japanese: ja ミサ misa Khmer: km អភិបូជា Korean: ko 미사 Kyrgyz: ky месса Latvian: lv mise f Lithuanian: lt mesa f Macedonian: mk миса f Malay: ms misa Malayalam: ml കുർബാന Maltese: mt quddiesa Māori: mi miha Norman: nrf mêsse f Norwegian: Bokmål: nb messe m f Nynorsk: nn messe f Occitan: oc messa f Polabian: pox maiso f Polish: pl msza f Portuguese: pt missa f Romanian: ro mesă f, ro liturghie f Russian: ru ме́сса f Sardinian: sc miscia f Scottish Gaelic: gd Aifreann m f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh миса f Latin: sh misa f Slovak: sk omša f Slovene: sl maša f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb mša f, dsb namša f Spanish: es misa f Swedish: sv mässa c Tagalog: tl misa Tajik: tg месса Ukrainian: uk ме́са f Vietnamese: vi thánh lễ, vi lễ mét Walloon: wa messe f Welsh: cy offeren f a musical composition set to portions of the Mass Finnish: fi messu German: de Messe f Irish: ga Aifreann m Polish: pl msza f Scottish Gaelic: gd Aifreann m f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb mša f, dsb namša f Welsh: cy offeren f See also en Divine Liturgy Etymology 2 Short forms. Proper noun en proper noun en Massachusetts. en the Massachusetts Turnpike Mass Pike en Mas. Anagrams en amss Sams SAMs MSAs sams SMAs MSSA SMSA ASMS ASMs en Christianity States of the United States Faroese Proper noun fo proper noun m fo male Usage notes m Massson Massdóttir Declension Mass Mass Massi Mass German Pronunciation de De-Mass.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de as 1 Noun n de SLDE Maß Declension n Further reading Hunsrik Pronunciation Noun f Masse mass Further reading Luxembourgish Pronunciation lb [mɑs] lb ɑs 1 Etymology 1 From lb gmh misse, from lb goh missa (variant of goh messa), from lb la missa. The form requires gmh -i- affected by regular centralization and lowering as in de Kand etc. gmh mësse would have yielded lb *Mess or lb *Miess. Cognate with nl mis, de Messe, en mass, da messe. Noun f lb Roman Catholicism mass, en Mass kind of liturgical service Derived terms lb Doudemass Fréimass Krankemass Etymology 2 lb fr masse and/or lb de Masse, both from lb la massa. The word cannot directly continue lb gmh masse, which would have yielded lb *Maass. Noun f paste, dough mass great quantity lb physics mass, weight lb electronics earth, ground Related terms lb massiv lb Christianity