Mensa

See also: mensa and mēnsa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnsə/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsə

Etymology 1

From Latin mensa (“table”). The organization promotes itself as a "round-table" society in which differences in the backgrounds of its members are considered irrelevant.

Proper noun

Mensa

1. Mensa International, an organization for people with very high IQs.

Derived terms

• Mensan

See also

• Mensa International on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mensa's website

Etymology 2

From Mons Mensae (mensa (“table”)), from Montagne de la Table. Originally named Montagne de la Table after Table Mountain in South Africa in 1756 by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. By 1763 this had been Latinised as Mons Mensae. In 1922 the International Astronomical Union shortened this to Mensa.

Proper noun

Mensa

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.

Derived terms

• Mensae

Translations

constellation

• Danish: Taffelbjerget
• Esperanto: Tablomonto
• Finnish: Pöytä
• French: Table (fr) f
• Galician: Mesa (gl)
• German: Tafelberg (de) m
• Irish: an Tábla m
• Malay: Gunung Datar
• Norwegian: Bordet (no)
• Polish: Stół m
• Russian: Столо́вая Гора́ f (Stolóvaja Gorá)
• Spanish: Mensa

Anagrams

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnzaː/

• Audio

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Noun

Mensa f (genitive Mensa, plural Mensen)

1. cafeteria (at a university), student canteen

Declension

Declension of Mensa [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mensa	die	Mensen
genitive	einer	der	Mensa	der	Mensen
dative	einer	der	Mensa	den	Mensen
accusative	eine	die	Mensa	die	Mensen

Further reading

• “Mensa” in Duden online
• “Mensa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache