See Massa on Wiktionary
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"name": "es-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Mas‧sa"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Mas‧sa"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/asa",
"Rhymes:Spanish/asa/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns with irregular gender",
"Spanish nouns with multiple genders",
"Spanish proper nouns",
"Spanish surnames",
"Spanish surnames from Italian",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Spanish uncountable proper nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from Italian"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmasa/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈma.sa]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-asa"
}
],
"word": "Massa"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Massa meaning in All languages combined (14.8kB)
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"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"Massa"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Massa",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/449",
"msg": "ITALIC not properly closed on the same line",
"path": [
"Massa"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Massa",
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}
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