Origin Of Word Christmas

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Origin of word christmas. The second part of christmas maesse is a version of the latin word missa the celebration of the eucharist tradition of eating bread and drinking wine in memory of jesus. The form christenmas was also. Written as one word from mid 14c. The earlier term yule may have derived from the germanic jōl or the anglo saxon geōl which referred to the feast of the winter solstice the corresponding terms in other languages navidad in spanish natale in italian noël in french all.

And mæsse is from latin missa the celebration of the eucharist. The shocking pagan origin of christmas. It itself is a mixture. The word christmas comes from middle english cristemasse which in turn comes from old english cristes messe literally meaning christ s mass.

Mistletoe is a combination of mistel which itself was once used as a name for the shrub and the old english word for twig tān. The loss of the final n in the modern form mistletoe is from confusion with another tān the plural of toe the exact origin of mistel is as equivocal as the origin of the kissing tradition associated with mistletoe. Christmas n church festival observed annually in memory of the birth of christ late old english cristes mæsse from christ and retaining the original vowel sound mass n 2. Of course we are not talking about the physical mass of christ s body.

The origin of mass in the christian sense of the word is not entirely clear. It ultimately derives from some ancient germanic word root meaning something like give or bestow which is also the origin of the not so festive german word gift meaning poison 7. This is also called. What is the actual origin of the celebration of december 25.

Etymology christmas is a shortened form of christ s mass the word is recorded as crīstesmæsse in 1038 and cristes messe in 1131. Crīst genitive crīstes is from greek khrīstos χριστός a translation of hebrew māšîaḥ מ ש יח messiah meaning anointed. It comes from a greek word that means anointed one the hebrew word is messiah a term that old testament prophets used to describe the. Christmas christian festival celebrating the birth of jesus the english term christmas mass on christ s day is of fairly recent origin.

No article about christmas is complete without some explanation of the christmas tree we have touched on it without directly focusing on it. The word christmas has its origin from the old english term cristes maesse meaning christ s mass 1 though the word christ is commonly used as jesus name it is actually a title. A careful look at the word christmas itself ought to tell us something. As a verb to celebrate christmas from 1590s.