mensa

See also: Mensa and mēnsa

English

Noun

mensa (plural mensae)

1. In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.

Anagrams

• Means, Seman, amens, manes, manse, means, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēnsa (“table”).

Noun

mensa f (plural mense)

1. refectory
2. a meal, food on the table
3. a table
4. (uncommon) a Christian altar

See also

• tavola, tavolo
• altare

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Latin

Etymology

Probably the feminine form of the perfect passive participle of mēnsus (“measured”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmẽːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmɛnsä]
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Noun

1. a table
2. a table of food; meal, course, feast
3. an altar (sacrificial table)

Derived terms

• mēnsārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: measã
• Asturian: mesa
• Catalan: mesa
• Dalmatian: maisa
• English: mense
• French: moise, mense
• German: Mensa
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs)
• Indonesian: meja
• Irish: mias
• Italian: mensa
• Malay: meja
• Occitan: mensa

• Portuguese: mesa
• Romanian: masă
• Romansch: maisa
• Sardinian: mesa
• Scottish Gaelic: mias
• Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• Spanish: mesa, mensa, menso
• English: mesa
• Swahili: meza
• Slovene: miza
• Turkish: masa

Participle

(deprecated template usage) mēnsa

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) inflection of mēnsus:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative neuter plural
   3. accusative neuter plural
   4. vocative feminine singular
   5. vocative neuter plural

(deprecated template usage) mēnsā

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) ablative feminine singular of mēnsus

References

• “mensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mensa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mensa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
    
  • a table bountifully spread: mensae exstructae
    
  • the dessert: secunda mensa (Att. 14. 6. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) the intercalary year (month, day): annus (mensis, dies) intercalaris
    
• “mensa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mensa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “mensa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Adjective

mensa

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) feminine singular of menso