missá

Borrowed from Portuguese missa. The spelling ⟨ss⟩ is influenced by Portuguese.

• IPA^(key): /misa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: mis‧sá

missá (unknown possessiveness) (Kipeá)

1. (dis legomenon, Christianity) Mass
   • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri, page 10:

     Ubí dó Miſſá m^{[sic – meaning mó]} Tupã buyẽ.

     To hear Mass on holy days.

   • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri, page 87:

     Bihé uró iwó canghi mó Tupã buyẽ; ſubí dó miſſá, ſimé ſó Tupã dehẽ, netçó ſimé waré nódehẽ nó ſiperétó ſuworobŷ Tupã inhá idiohóá […]

     Only this [is] the way to be good on holy days: to hear Mass, to speak to God also, to hear what the priest says as well when the articles of the faith are recounted by him to the people […]

• It is more common to find the unadapted borrowing ⟨Miſſa⟩.