Other forms: messages
A message is a short piece of writing sent to somebody. Send a message, leave a message, got your message.
Text and text message are the specific kinds, and messaging app is where most of them go now. Leave a message is what an answering machine asks for. The other sense is the point somebody is making: the message of the film, get the message, mixed messages. Note messenger; on message, which is political and means saying what the party agreed; and shoot the messenger.
1nounmessageA short piece of writing sent to somebody.~94%
“I sent her a message to say I'd be late.”
synonyms: text, note
2nounpointThe point somebody is making.~6%
“The message of the film is that family matters more than money.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 16 sentences found in the wild and placed 16 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
message is something sent or communicated.
Also accepted in games: text
Latin missaticum comes from mittere, to send — the same verb as in mission, missile, admit and permit. A message is a thing sent, and a messenger is a sender's servant.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
Proto-Indo-European
*meyth₂- — to exchange
Latin
mitto — send
la-eme
missāticum
Old French
message
Middle English
message
English, today
message
From Middle English message, from Old French message, from la-eme missāticum, derived from Latin mitto (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially ærende (whence errand).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA