messager

From message + -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

messager (plural messagers)

1. One who sends a message.
   • 2010, Carol M. Lehman, Debbie D. Dufrene, Business Communication, page 163:

     Some of the most avid text messagers are clustered in Southeast Asia.

2. (obsolete) A messenger.

• “messager”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Old French messagier, from message.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.sa.ʒe/ ~ /me.sa.ʒe/

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messager m (plural messagers, feminine messagère)

1. messenger; one who carries a message

• → Italian: messaggero

• “messager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• germasse