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In case you were confused by CodeCat's edit summary when she undid your edit at commensurate (she must not have read your edit summary), I should explain that we have the main entry for Latin verbs at the first person singular, which is the way most Latin dictionaries are arranged, not at the infinitive. Monolingual English dictionaries tend to give Latin verbs in the infinitive, but they don't have Latin entries to link to. If you look at the Verb section at mēnsūra, it just says "second-person singular present active imperative of mēnsūrō", so readers would have had to click on mēnsūrō to get to the definitions, etc. See About Latin for more information. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:49, 14 February 2016 (UTC)