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The word Christmas derives from the late old English Christes mæsse , meaning the mass of Christ.
Mass has its roots, as already noted, in the old English mæsse which itself derives from the written Latin missa which means send, send away, or dismiss.
The earliest occurrences of the word being used to refer to a religious service are to be found in the epistles of Saint Ambrose and the itinerary of Silvia of Aquitania in the last quarter of the fourth century, when it was applied to matins and vespers; however, in its most eminent sense, mæsse was used to denote the Eucharist.