mensura
Latin
Etymology
From mēnsus, from mētior (“measure”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /menˈsuː.ra/, [mẽːˈs̠uːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /menˈsu.ra/, [menˈsuːrä]
Noun
mēnsūra f (genitive mēnsūrae); first declension
- measure; a measuring
- (by extension) a standard or measure by which something is measured
- (figuratively) a quantity or amount
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mēnsūra | mēnsūrae |
Genitive | mēnsūrae | mēnsūrārum |
Dative | mēnsūrae | mēnsūrīs |
Accusative | mēnsūram | mēnsūrās |
Ablative | mēnsūrā | mēnsūrīs |
Vocative | mēnsūra | mēnsūrae |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Verb
(deprecated template usage) mēnsūrā
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
Spanish
Noun
mensura f (plural mensuras)