mesura

See also: mesurá and mesüra

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mēnsūra.

Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mesura”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan mesura, from Latin mēnsūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məˈzu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [meˈzu.ɾa]

Noun

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measurement

   Synonyms: mesurament, mesuratge

2. measure (move towards a goal)

   Synonym: mitjà

   No es van prendre mesures per evitar-ho.

   No measures were taken to avoid it.

3. measure (receptacle for measuring)
4. (figurative) moderation, restraint

   Synonym: moderació

Derived terms

• a mesura que
• desmesura
• en la mesura que
• omplir la mesura
• ultra mesura

Related terms

• mesurar

References

• “mesura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mesura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mesura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mesura”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology 2

Verb

mesura

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

French

Verb

mesura

1. third-person singular past historic of mesurer

Anagrams

• amuser, masure, Maures, maures, mueras, musera, remuas, résuma, ruâmes

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesura, from Latin mensūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈsuɾɐ]

Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. moderation, restraint
2. affectation; flattery
   • 1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

     "!Ai qu'engañadiña estás! Non te creas de baiuras, nin de quen faga mesuras, que a culpa tivoa o rapaz."

     Ah, you're so wrong! Don't believe in tricks nor in who say flatteries, because the blame is on the boy!

Related terms

• desmesura
• desmesurado
• medir
• mesurado
• sen mesura

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mesura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mesura”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “mesura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Interlingua

Noun

mesura (plural mesuras)

1. measure, intervention, approach
2. measure, extent

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mensura.

Noun

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measure (all senses); rule
2. dose

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈsuɾa/ [meˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: me‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Italic *mētis

Latin mētior

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin mēnsūra

Spanish mesura

Inherited from Latin mēnsūra (“measurement”).

Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement; restraint

Etymology 2

Verb

mesura

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

Further reading

• “mesura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025