massa

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
2. (feminine) pasta
3. (feminine) a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects
4. (feminine) mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)
5. (feminine) multitude (a great mass of people)
6. (feminine,uncountable) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)
7. (feminine,slang,uncountable) money

Adj

1. (Brazil,feminine,informal,masculine) cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)
2. (Brazil,feminine,informal,masculine) great; amazing; awesome

Hyphenated as

mas‧sa

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈma.sɐ/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “to handle; to knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.

Sentences

Ele se aproximou da massa e ficou surpreso com o tamanho e a forma .

He approached the dough and was surprised at its size and shape.