massif

Etymology

Borrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, ultimately from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mæˈsiːf/, /ˈmæsɪf/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -iːf

Noun

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massif

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massif (plural massifs)

A principal mountain mass.
- 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
  This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists.
- 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
  The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif.
- 1921, Max Roesler, The Iron-ore Resources of Europe‎, page 68:
  Some deposits of iron ore are scattered along the edges of the massif in south - central France.
- 1891, Carl Diener, “Reviews and Notices”, in The Alpine Journal‎, volume 15, page 564:
  The southern portion of the zone from the Maritime Alps to the Pelvoux massif is complicated by the movements which have accompanied the formation of the mountains of Provence.

Derived terms

Armorican Massif

Translations

principal mountain mass

Arabic: نَجْد m (najd)
Aragonese: macizo m
Azerbaijani: massiv
Basque: mendigune
Belarusian: масі́ў m (masíŭ)
Bulgarian: маси́в m (masív)
Catalan: massís (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 山體 / 山体 (saan¹ tai²), 体 (saan¹ tai²)

Mandarin: 山體 / 山体 (zh) (shāntǐ)
Czech: masiv m
Danish: massiv n, bjergmassiv n
Dutch: massief (nl) n, bergmassief (nl) n
Esperanto: masivo
Estonian: massiiv
Finnish: massiivi
French: massif (fr) m
Galician: macizo m
Georgian: მასივი (masivi)
German: Massiv (de) n
Alemannic German: Massiv n
Greek: μασίφ (el) m (masíf)
Hebrew: מַסִּיף m (massif)
Hindi: पुंजक (puñjak), मैसिफ़ (maisif)
Hungarian: masszívum (hu)
Indonesian: masif (id)
Irish: masaíf f
Italian: massiccio (it) m
Japanese: 山塊 (ja) (さんかい, sankai)
Kazakh: массив (massiv)
Korean: 육괴(陸塊) (yukgoe)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: masif (ku)
Kyrgyz: массив (massiv)
Latvian: masīvs m
Lithuanian: masyvas m
Macedonian: масив m (masiv)
Malay: massif
Manx: glout-sleitagh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: massiv n, fjellmassiv n

Nynorsk: massiv n
Occitan: massís m
Persian: توده‌کوه (tude kuh)
Polish: masyw (pl) m inan
Portuguese: maciço (pt) m
Romanian: masiv (ro) n
Russian: масси́в (ru) m (massív)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̀сӣв m

Roman: màsīv (sh) m
Slovak: masív m
Slovene: masiv (sl) m
Spanish: macizo (es) m
Swedish: massiv (sv) n, bergsmassiv n
Tajik: массив (massiv)
Turkish: masif (tr)
Turkmen: massiw
Ukrainian: маси́в m (masýv)
Uzbek: massiv (uz)
Cyrillic: массив (uz) (massiv)
Vietnamese: khối núi
Volapük: masif (vo)

block of the earth's crust

Chinese:
Mandarin: 地塊 / 地块 (zh) (dìkuài)
Finnish: massiivi

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