English → Latin
“mass” in Latin
massamass, bulk (of material); load, burden; doughsummatop, summit, highest point or place; the principal or main thing; sum, summary, totalvolōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendcōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches; plenty, fulness, multitude; opportunity, facilities (the means of doing multitūdōA great number; multitude, numerousness.; A great number of people, crowd, mob, throng, multitude.pondusweight; weight of a pound; heaviness, weight of a bodymōlēsmultitude, mass (of material); size; rock, boulder, cliff, ridge, outcrop, knollcorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblturbaturmoil, disorder, stir, disturbance, tumult, uproar, hubbub, commotion, trouble, confusion, disarray, brawl; mob, crowdmittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, tel
The English word mass itself goes back to Latin mittō, through *messa.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mass
Matter, massa (general term).
Great quantity, sum, summa (contents): vis, copia (quantity): multitudo (number): pondus (weight): moles (great quantity or size, usually with the notion of excess or unshapeliness): corpus (the total, body of things connected or found together): turba (a confused crowd): the mass of the booty, summa prasdae: a great mass of money, magnum pondus argenti: the mass of the troops, moles exercitus: to heap together a mass of words, turbam congregare (Quint., 10, 1, 7): a mass of materials, silva rerum (Cic., De Or., 3, 26, 103).
A Roman service, *missa: a mass-book, *missale.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mass?
- The usual Latin words for “mass” are massa, summa, volō; also cōpia, multitūdō, pondus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.