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Messer

//ˈmɛsə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something who messes.
  2. 2
    Form of address equivalent to signore. obsolete
  3. 3
    A single-edged sword with a knife-like hilt.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Messer (“knife”), a metonymic occupational surname for a cutler. * An English occupational surname for someone who kept watch over harvested crops, from Old French messier (“harvest warden”).

Etymology 2

From mess + -er.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian messer, which is itself a truncated form of messere. Doublet of monsieur.

Etymology 4

From German Messer.

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