messaggio Italian · revision 37818

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1225, Venetian treaty with Aleppo|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /mesˈsad.d͡ʒo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''messaggio''' ''m'' (plural messaggi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fro|message]], recorded in French from the end of the 11th century and formed from [[m|fro|mes|t=messenger]], from [[la|missus|t=one sent, envoy]], the past participle of [[m|la|mittō|t=to send]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Devoto 1968) GRADIT, Gabrielli and Wiktionary derive the French word instead from [[la-med|missāticum|t=embassy, message]], recorded from 806 and formed from the same participle with [[m|la|-āticum]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Gabrielli 2020)^(Wiktionary) The Occitan form is [[m|oc|mesatge]], and [[es|mensaje]] also comes from French.^(Nocentini 2010)^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is a Venetian treaty with Aleppo of 1225, where the word means a person sent with a message, an envoy.^(TLIO) DELI's first record of the sense “news sent to others” is before 1250, in an anonymous poet and Giacomo da Lentini.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ For a long time the word meant the messenger as well as the message: Dante writes of two souls coming “in forma di messaggi” (as messengers), and Boiardo still has “il messaggio subito fu andato” (the messenger went at once).^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Zingarelli 2010) ''Messaggero'' (before 1292) is from French ''messager'', and ''messaggeria'' (1219, ''messaggiaria'') from French ''messagerie''.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ The solemn address of a political or religious authority is recorded from Carlo Botta (1809), probably after English ''message'', used in this sense from 1566.^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|2436) The sense “new teaching that opens the way to future developments” is from 1957, and ''messaggio pubblicitario'' “advertisement” from 1963.^(DELI 1999) The modern dictionaries add the senses of information theory, of computing and of the short text sent by mobile phone, also called ''messaggino''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1225 – A Venetian treaty with Aleppo uses ''messaggio'' for an envoy.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1250 – Giacomo da Lentini uses it for a message.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1292 – ''Messaggero'' is recorded in Bono Giamboni.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1809 – Carlo Botta uses it for a solemn address.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1957 – The sense “innovative teaching” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1963 – ''Messaggio pubblicitario'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|message]], a piece of news or a communication sent to someone in speech, in writing or by other means: ''Ti ho lasciato un messaggio in segreteria.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # A text message sent by phone or through a chat: ''Mandami un messaggio quando arrivi.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A solemn [[m|en|address]] by a high political or religious authority: ''il messaggio di fine anno del presidente''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # An official communication from the head of state to the legislature.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A teaching or doctrine that deeply influences thought: ''il messaggio del Vangelo''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # The idea or moral that a book, a film or a work of art conveys.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(information theory, computing)'' A set of signals or data in a code, sent from a source to a receiver.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A [[m|en|messenger]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[messaggero]]

+ * [[messaggeria]]

+ * [[messaggino]]

+ * [[messaggistica]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[messo]]

+ * [[mettere]]

+ * [[fro|message]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Messaggio in bottiglia'' is a message in a bottle, and figuratively a last desperate appeal.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}