Words that come from Latin “missus”

143 words across 52 languages descend from Latin missus — including message, messenger, messengers, maze, mazy, mazelike, messager, Childermas.

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English (31)

Faroese (8)

Middle English (8)

German (7)

Dutch (5)

Old French (5)

French (4)

Italian (4)

Latin (3)

Icelandic (3)

Luxembourgish (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Swedish (3)

Japanese (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Spanish (3)

Norman (3)

Tagalog (2)

Middle French (2)

Catalan (2)

Albanian (2)

Russian (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Scots (2)

Late Latin (2)

Middle High German (2)

Interlingua (1)

Dalmatian (1)

West Flemish (1)

Korean (1)

Turkish (1)

Chinese (1)

Polish (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Greek (1)

Hausa (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Old English (1)

Old Norse (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Romanian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Portuguese (1)

Malagasy (1)

Malay (1)

Waray-Waray (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old High German (1)