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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmɪs.sa]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmis.sa]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''missa''' ''f'' (genitive missae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the feminine past participle of [[mittō]] “to send, let go”, used as a noun “dismissal”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is probably named from the closing words of the service, ⟨Ite, missa est⟩ “Go, it is the dismissal”.^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010) Isidore of Seville explained it from the sending out of the catechumens before the sacrifice.^(Isidore)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis and Short and Gaffiot cite Ambrose's letters, and Köbler's first source is Commodian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Ambrose c. 340–397 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a dismissal, a letting go, as in the Theodosian Code, and the Mass, the Eucharistic service, as in Ambrose and Isidore of Seville.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin it meant the dismissal of the faithful at the end of Mass, a closing prayer of an office, and a feast day, and in British sources also a letter sent.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it is the Mass.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''messa'', French ''messe'', Spanish ''misa'' and Romanian ''misă''.^(Wiktionary) Through Vulgar Latin *messa it gave Old English ''mæsse'', whence [[en|Mass]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it of the Mass.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville explains the word.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A dismissal.^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The [[m|en|Mass]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The dismissal at the end of Mass; a closing prayer; a feast day.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[mittō]]
+ * [[missiō]]
+ * [[en|Mass]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}