Messer

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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”).

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