mensa
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin mēnsa (“table, altar”). Doublet of mesa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmensa (plural mensae or mensas)
- In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.
- (Roman Catholicism) The upper surface of an altar.
- 1993, B. Don Taylor, The Complete Training Course for Altar Guilds, →ISBN, page 32:
- Some churches also have an altar stone, a separate stone set into the mensa containing a relic of a saint, although this is becoming extremely rare.
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editmensa
Highland Popoluca
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editmensa
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin mēnsa (“table”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmensa f (plural mense)
See also
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editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editProbably a nominalization of the feminine form of the perfect passive participle mēnsus (“measured”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmẽːs̠ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmɛnsä]
Noun
editmēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mēnsa | mēnsae |
Genitive | mēnsae | mēnsārum |
Dative | mēnsae | mēnsīs |
Accusative | mēnsam | mēnsās |
Ablative | mēnsā | mēnsīs |
Vocative | mēnsa | mēnsae |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
editmēnsa
- inflection of mēnsus:
Participle
editmēnsā
References
edit- “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 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.
- 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
- to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
- “mensa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mensa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (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
editAdjective
editmensa
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