mensura

Latin

Etymology 1

From mēnsus, from mētior (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈsuː.ra/, [mẽːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈsu.ra/, [menˈsuːrä]

Noun

mēnsūra f (genitive mēnsūrae); first declension

1. measure; a measuring
2. (by extension) a standard or measure by which something is measured
3. (figuratively) a quantity or amount

Declension

First-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	mēnsūra	mēnsūrae
genitive	mēnsūrae	mēnsūrārum
dative	mēnsūrae	mēnsūrīs
accusative	mēnsūram	mēnsūrās
ablative	mēnsūrā	mēnsūrīs
vocative	mēnsūra	mēnsūrae

Derived terms

• mēnsūrābilis
• mēnsūrālis
• mēnsūrō

Related terms

• mēnsūrātiō
• mēnsūrātor
• mētior

Descendants

• → Albanian: mëshere, mueshirë
• Aromanian: misurã
• Catalan: mesura
• Friulian: misure
• Galician: mesura
• → Irish: measair
• Italian: misura
• Ladin: mesura
• Occitan: mesura

• Old French: mesure
  • French: mesure
  • → Irish: miosúr
  • → Middle English: mesure
    • English: measure
  • Norman: m'suthe
  • Walloon: muzeure
• Portuguese: mesura
• Romanian: măsură
• Romansch: mesira, masira, maseira, masüra, imsüra
• → Russian: мензура (menzura)
• Sardinian: mesura, misura
• Sicilian: misura
• Spanish: mesura, → mensura (learned)
• Venetan: mexura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mēnsūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēnsūrō

References

• “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mensura 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)
• mensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mensura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mensura”, 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

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsūra.

Noun

mensura f (plural mensuras)

1. measurement

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mensura

1. inflection of mensurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mensura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28