mensa

mensa (plural mensae)

1. In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.

• Means, Seman, amens, manes, manse, means, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

Borrowed from Latin mēnsa (“table”).[1]

mensa f (plural mense)

1. refectory
2. a meal, food on the table
3. a table
4. (uncommon) a Christian altar

• tavola, tavolo
• altare

• mēsa (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

Probably the feminine form of the perfect passive participle of mēnsus (“measured”).

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

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mēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension

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

First declension.

• mēnsārius

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

• 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
• mensa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mensa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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, 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

mensa

1. feminine singular of menso