Where does “missa” come from?
missa (English) comes from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin mittō, from Proto-Italic meitō, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
missa (English): a mass, in the sense of a composition setting...
Definitions
- a mass, in the sense of a composition setting...
Ancestry of “missa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ecclesiastical Latin | missa | mass; Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy;... |
| 2 | Latin | mittō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | meitō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |