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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsɪv/
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• rhymes with -ɪsɪv
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 S IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Spanish: misivo — Translations
• Bulgarian: послание (poslanie) — a written message
• Catalan: missiva — a written message
• Czech: dopis — a written message
• Czech: list — a written message
• Czech: psaní — a written message
• French: missive — a written message
• German: Sendschreiben — a written message
• German: Schrieb — a written message
• German: Schreiben — a written message
• Greek: επιστολή (epistolí) — a written message
• Greek: σημείωμα (simeíoma) — a written message
• Icelandic: langt og virðulegt bréf — a written message
• Icelandic: langur og virðulegur pistill — a written message
• Italian: missiva — a written message
• Northern Kurdish: peyam — a written message
• Northern Kurdish: daxuyanî — a written message
• Latin: epistola — a written message
• Latin: litterae — a written message
• Polish: pismo — a written message
• Polish: list — a written message
• Polish: posłanie — a written message
• Portuguese: missiva — a written message
• Russian: посла́ние (poslánije) — a written message
• Russian: письмо (pisʹmo) — a written message
• Spanish: misiva — a written message
• Ukrainian: посла́ння (poslánnja) — a written message