mesa
English
editEtymology
editFirst attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa (plural mesas)
- Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
- Hyponyms: potrero, tuya
- Coordinate term: butte
- A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
- Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
- 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
Derived terms
editTranslations
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See also
edit- tablemount (homologous landform under the sea)
Further reading
editAnagrams
editAragonese
editEtymology
editNoun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
References
edit- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mesa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa f (plural meses)
Catalan
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa f (plural meses)
- (Christianity) altar
- (Christianity) mense
- board (executive team)
- (billiards) game
- (Alghero) table
- Synonym: table
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Latin missa, feminine perfect passive participle of mittō. Doublet of missa, a learned borrowing.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa f (plural meses)
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
editPronunciation
editParticiple
editmesa f sg
Etymology 4
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmesa
- inflection of mesar:
Further reading
edit- “mesa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mesa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chamicuro
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa
Chavacano
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa
French
editNoun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
Further reading
edit- “mesa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese mesa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
- table
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- E pois eu doze perdizes,
e de polos ducia e media
lle hei de lebar se Deus quer,
e se podo vnha Tenreyra,
por ser prato regalado
que se estima en calquer mesa.- Then I twelve partridges
and a dozen and a half chickens
I ought to take, God willing,
and if I can a calf [veal]
because it is a delightful dish
that is appreciated in any table.
- Then I twelve partridges
- all items set on a table for a meal
- board; directors of an organization
- stall, stand
- Synonym: trabanca
- bed of a cart
- stool
- bench
- Synonym: banco
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Further reading
edit- “mesa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Gothic
editRomanization
editmēsa
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰
Hausa
editPronunciation
editNoun
editHighland Popoluca
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa
References
edit- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83
Kituba
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa
Latin
editNoun
editmēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension (proscribed)
- Alternative spelling of mēnsa (“table”)
- 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 152:
- mensa non mesa
- [The correct form is] mensa, not mesa
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mēsa | mēsae |
Genitive | mēsae | mēsārum |
Dative | mēsae | mēsīs |
Accusative | mēsam | mēsās |
Ablative | mēsā | mēsīs |
Vocative | mēsa | mēsae |
Descendants
editLatvian
editEtymology
editNoun
editmesa f (4 declension)
Declension
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Lingala
editNoun
editmesa
Luba-Kasai
editNoun
editmesa
Luo
editEtymology
editNoun
editmesa
- table
- Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.
- The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.
Occitan
editEtymology
editFrom metre.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
Verb
editmesa
- feminine singular of the past participle of metre
Pali
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editmesa m
Declension
editCase \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | meso | mesā |
Accusative (second) | mesaṃ | mese |
Instrumental (third) | mesena | mesehi or mesebhi |
Dative (fourth) | mesassa or mesāya or mesatthaṃ | mesānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | mesasmā or mesamhā or mesā | mesehi or mesebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | mesassa | mesānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | mesasmiṃ or mesamhi or mese | mesesu |
Vocative (calling) | mesa | mesā |
Papiamentu
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.
Noun
editmesa
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”).
Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.
Not related to Persian میز (mêz, “table”). As both it and Portuguese mesa have been borrowed into different languages of southern Asia, they are sometimes confused by etymologists.
Pronunciation
edit
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈme.za/
- Hyphenation: me‧sa
Noun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
- table (item of furniture)
- José, põe a mesa, por favor.
- José, please set the table.
- 2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 6:
- Cumprimentou-as tocando a aba do chapéu — pois ele usava chapéu, um fedora verde imaculado, além de luvas cor de lima —, e em seguida caminhou até a mesa onde estavam as mulheres, que deram risada.
- He greeted them by touching the brim of his hat – for he wore a hat, an immaculate green fedora, and lime-colored gloves – and then walked to the table where the women were, who gave a laugh.
- meal, food
- Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.
- Portugal has good food and good wine.
- (geography) mesa
- board (committee)
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.
Derived terms
edit- mesa-de-cabeceira
- mesinha (diminutive)
- mesona (augmentative)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “mesa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Rwanda-Rundi
editVerb
edit-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)
Sardinian
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Noun
editmesa f (plural mesas)
- table
- (by extension) dinner table
- ¡A la mesa! ― Dinner is ready!
- (geography) mesa
- desk (in an office)
- bureau, committee
- Mesa de la Cámara ― House Committee
- mesa electoral ― polling station
- (business) board
Derived terms
edit- a mesa puesta
- agua de mesa
- alzar la mesa
- bendecir la mesa
- buena mesa
- centro de mesa
- computador de mesa
- computadora de mesa
- cubrir la mesa
- de mesa ("tabletop")
- hacer mesa gallega
- juego de mesa
- levantar la mesa
- mesa de altar
- mesa de batalla
- mesa de billar
- mesa de cambios
- mesa de cartas
- mesa de comedor
- mesa de estado
- mesa de guarnición
- mesa de lavar
- mesa de luz
- mesa de noche
- mesa del pellejo
- mesa del sol
- mesa electoral
- mesa ratona
- mesa redonda
- mesero
- mesilla
- mesita
- paño de mesa
- poner la mesa
- sal de mesa
- servir la mesa
- sobremesa
- tenis de mesa
- tornamesas
- vino de mesa
Descendants
edit- Chavacano: mesa
- → Catalan: mesa
- ⇒ Cebuano: lamesa
- → Chamicuro: mesa
- → Guaraní: mesa
- → English: mesa
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: mesa
- ⇒ Higaonon: lamesa
- → Highland Popoluca: mesa
- → Kituba: mesa
- → O'odham: miːsa
- → Tagalog: mesa, ⇒ lamesa
- → Ye'kwana: mesa
- → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
- → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editmesa
- inflection of mesar:
Further reading
edit- “mesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmesa/ [ˈmɛː.sɐ]
- Rhymes: -esa
- Syllabification: me‧sa
Noun
editmesa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ)
Derived terms
editWelsh
editEtymology
editFrom mes (“acorns”) + -a. Cognate with Cornish mesa.
Pronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmɛsa/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmeːsa/, /ˈmɛsa/
- Rhymes: -ɛsa
Verb
editmesa (first-person singular present mesaf)
- to gather acorns
Conjugation
editsingular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | mesaf | mesi | mesa | meswn | meswch | mesant | mesir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
meswn | mesit | mesai | mesem | mesech | mesent | mesid | |
preterite | mesais | mesaist | mesodd | mesasom | mesasoch | mesasant | meswyd | |
pluperfect | mesaswn | mesasit | mesasai | mesasem | mesasech | mesasent | mesasid, mesesid | |
present subjunctive | meswyf | mesych | meso | mesom | mesoch | mesont | meser | |
imperative | — | mesa | mesed | meswn | meswch | mesent | meser | |
verbal noun | mesa | |||||||
verbal adjectives | mesedig mesadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | mesa i, mesaf i | mesi di | mesith o/e/hi, mesiff e/hi | meswn ni | meswch chi | mesan nhw |
conditional | meswn i | meset ti | mesai fo/fe/hi | mesen ni | mesech chi | mesen nhw |
preterite | mesais i, meses i | mesaist ti, mesest ti | mesodd o/e/hi | meson ni | mesoch chi | meson nhw |
imperative | — | mesa | — | — | meswch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Mutation
editWelsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
mesa | fesa | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mesa”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Ye'kwana
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmesa (possessed mesai)
References
edit- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mesa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “mesai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.
Noun
editmesa
References
edit- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) “Tlen ticuih itich in cocina”, in Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán[4], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16
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