Where does “Mass” come from?
Mass (Luxembourgish) comes from French masse, from Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
Mass (Luxembourgish): mass; Mass; mass; paste, dough
Definitions
- mass; Mass; mass; paste, dough
Ancestry of “Mass”, step by step
Mass traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French masse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 2 | Old French | mace | mace weapon |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 4 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Middle High German misse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle High German | misse | — |
| 2 | Old High German | missa | Mass |
| 3 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 5 | Latin | mittō | to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | meitō | to put forth, put out |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |