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

Borrowing 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) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmẽː.sa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.sa/

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Noun

mēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mēnsa	mēnsae
genitive	mēnsae	mēnsārum
dative	mēnsae	mēnsīs
accusative	mēnsam	mēnsās
ablative	mēnsā	mēnsīs
vocative	mēnsa	mēnsae

Derived terms

• mēnsārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: measã
• Asturian: mesa
• Catalan: mesa
• Dalmatian: maisa
• French: moise
• 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
• Swahili: meza
• Slovene: miza
• Turkish: masa

Participle

mēnsa

1. inflection of mēnsus:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative neuter plural
   3. accusative neuter plural
   4. vocative feminine singular
   5. vocative neuter plural

mēnsā

1. 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “mensa”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “mensa” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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. feminine singular of menso