Massa

The surname is from Italian Massa. Also found in southern France (see Massey).

Massa (plural Massas)

1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Massa (countable and uncountable, plural Massas)

1. (uncountable) A town in Tuscany, Italy
2. (countable) A surname.

• Assam, Samas, amass, msasa

• The town is from Latin Massa.
• The surname is from several places such as Massa Lubrense or Massa di Somma or Massa d'Albe, all from Latin massa (“lump, pile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/

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• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: Màs‧sa

Massa f

1. Massa (a town in Tuscany, Italy)

Massa m or f by sense

1. a surname

• English: Massa

From massa.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːs.sa/, [ˈmäːs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.sa/, [ˈmäsːä]

Māssa m sg (genitive Māssae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Baebius Massa, a Roman governor
2. Massa (a town in Tuscany, Italy)

First-declension noun, singular only.

Note that the town name also has locative Māssae.

• Massa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Massa, Baebius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Middle Low German messet, from Old Saxon metisahs, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs.

Massa n (plural Massasch)

1. knife

Massa m or f by sense

1. a surname, Massa

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: Mas‧sa

Massa m or f by sense

1. a surname from Italian