mensa

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsa (“table, altar”). Doublet of mesa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛn(t)sə/ === Noun === mensa (plural mensae or mensas) In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land. (Roman Catholicism) The upper surface of an altar. === Anagrams === namés, names, Seman, amens, manes, neams, ñames, mesna, Means, Manes, manse, means == Esperanto == === Etymology === From menso + -a. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmensa/ Rhymes: -ensa Syllabification: men‧sa === Adjective === mensa mental == Highland Popoluca == === Noun === mensa archaic form of mesa == Italian == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Latin mēnsa (“table”), although some sources disagree. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛn.sa/ Rhymes: -ɛnsa Hyphenation: mèn‧sa === Noun === mensa f (plural mense) refectory a meal, food on the table a table (uncommon) a Christian altar ==== See also ==== tavola, tavolo altare === References === === Anagrams === manse == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Probably a nominalization of the feminine form of the perfect passive participle mēnsus (“measured”). ==== Alternative forms ==== mēsa (Late Latin, proscribed) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmẽː.sa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛn.sa] ==== Noun ==== mēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension a table (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) a table of food; meal, course, feast an altar (sacrificial table) ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Participle ==== mēnsa inflection of mēnsus: nominative/vocative feminine singular nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural ==== Participle ==== mēnsā 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 "mensa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “mensa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “mensa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers mensa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), 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 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmensa/ [ˈmẽn.sa] Rhymes: -ensa Syllabification: men‧sa === Adjective === mensa feminine singular of menso