The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμᾶζα“barley-cake, lump (of dough)”
- Latin · derived frommassa
- Middle French · derived frommassif
- French · borrowed frommassif
- English todaymassif
Borrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, ultimately from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchmassif all →
massive
Latinmassa all →
massmassa
Ancient Greekμᾶζα all →
massmaza
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.