English
massifier
Blend of mass + classifier, or massify + -er.
A blend of mass + classifier
Ancient Greek μᾶζα ‘barley-cake, lump of dough’
Latin massa ‘lump, dough’
Anglo-Norman masse
Middle English masse ‘lump, quantity of matter’
English mass
Today it means
noun A kind of classifier that results in a mass noun rather than singling out a discrete unit.
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Etymograph / massifier