Where does “message” come from?

message (Scots) comes from Old French message, from Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

message (Scots): message; purchases, shopping

Definitions

  1. message; purchases, shopping

Ancestry of “message”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmessagemessage; messenger
2Latinmissāticummessage
3Latinmissussent, having been sent, caused to go, having been...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin missus →