mass – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to mass
Participle: massed
Gerund: massing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	mass
we	Let's mass
you	mass

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to join into a single mass or whole

agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, conflate, embody, fuse, integrate, meld, merge, unite

to come together as a group

assemble, begather, collect, congregate, congress, fall in with, flock, forgather, gather, gather up, group, herd, league, meet, meet up, pack, team, team up, throng

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "lump, quantity, size," c.1400, from O.Fr. masse "lump" (11c.), from L. massa "kneaded dough, lump, that which adheres together like dough," from Gk. maza "barley cake, lump, mass, ball," related to massein "to knead," from PIE base *mag-/*meg- "to knead" (cf. Lith. minkyti "to knead," see macerate). Sense extended 1585 to "a large quantity, amount, or number." Strict sense in physics is from 1704. Verb meaning "to gather in a mass" is attested from 1563. The masses "people of the lower class" is from 1837. Mass meeting is first attested 1733 in Amer.Eng.; mass production is from 1920; and mass media is first recorded 1923.
2. In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
3. The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.

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