# mesa
## English
### Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: māʹsə, IPA: /ˈmeɪ.sə/, /ˈmɛ.sə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪsə

### Noun

mesa (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: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

* Antelope Mesa
* Big Mountain Mesa
* Black Mesa
* First Mesa
* Mesa County
* Second Mesa
* Third Mesa

#### See also

* tablemount (homologous landform under the sea)

### Further reading

* mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., same, seam

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)
* table

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mesa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmesa/ [ˈme.sa]
* Hyphenation: me‧sa

### Noun

mesa f (plural meses)
* table

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈme.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

#### Noun

mesa f (plural meses)
* (Christianity) altar
* (Christianity) mense
* board (executive team)
* (billiards) game
* (Alghero) table
    Synonym: table

##### Related terms

* arquimesa
* mènsula

### Etymology 2

From Latin missa, feminine perfect passive participle of mittō. Doublet of missa, a learned borrowing.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

#### Noun

mesa f (plural meses)
* (botany) bud, budding
    Synonym: brotada

##### Derived terms

* mesar

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

#### Participle

mesa f sg
* feminine singular of mes

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

#### Verb

mesa
* inflection of mesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa
* table

## Chavacano
### Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa
* table

## Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa
* table

## French
### Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)
* mesa

### Further reading

* “mesa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmesɐ]

### Noun

mesa 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.
* all items set on a table for a meal
* board; directors of an organization
* stall, stand
    Synonym: trabanca
* bed of a cart
* stool
    Synonyms: banqueta, meso, tallo
* bench
    Synonym: banco

#### Related terms

* mesado
* meso
* mesoiro

### References

* 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* 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

* “mesa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Gothic
### Romanization

mēsa
* Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /méː.sàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [méː.sàː]

### Noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)
* python
* rubber hose

## Highland Popoluca
### Alternative forms

* mensa (archaic)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa
* table

### References

* Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83

## Kituba
### Etymology

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Noun

mesa
* table

## Latin
### Noun

mēsa 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

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: measã
** Romanian: masă (see there for further descendants)
* Dalmatian:
** maisa
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: mesa
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Romansch: maisa
** Ladin: mëisa
* Gallo-Romance:
** French: moise
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: mesa
** Asturian: mesa
** Portuguese: mesa (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: mesa (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs)
** → Old Irish: mías
*** Irish: mias
*** Scottish Gaelic: mias
** Proto-Slavic: *misa
** Slovene: miza (unsorted borrowing)

## Latvian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missa.

### Noun

mesa f (4 declension)
* (Christianity) mass

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Lingala
### Noun

mesa
* table

## Luba-Kasai
### Noun

mesa
* table

## Luo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili meza.

### Noun

mesa
* table
    Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.
    The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From metre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)
* placement, placing

### Verb

mesa
* feminine singular of the past participle of metre

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.sɑ/, [ˈme.zɑ]

### Noun

mesa
* nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mes

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀫𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
* मेस (Devanagari script)
* মেস (Bengali script)
* මෙස (Sinhalese script)
* မေသ (Burmese script)
* เมส or เมสะ (Thai script)
* ᨾᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
* ເມສ or ເມສະ (Lao script)
* មេស (Khmer script)
* 𑄟𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

### Noun

mesa m
* ram

#### Declension
## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

### Noun

mesa
* table

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From 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

* IPA: /ˈme.zɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ˈme.za/
* Hyphenation: me‧sa

### Noun

mesa 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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.

#### Derived terms

* mesa de cabeceira
* mesinha (diminutive)
* mesona (augmentative)

#### Descendants

* → Javanese: méja
* → Kadiwéu: nameeja
* → Kaingang: mẽja
* → Kituba: mesa
* → Lingala: mésá
* → Luganda: mmeeza
* → Malay: meja
** > Indonesian: meja (inherited)
* → Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
* Papiamentu: mesa
* → Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
* → Tamil: மேசை (mēcai), மேஜை (mējai)

### Further reading

* “mesa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Verb

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)
* wash clothing, launder

## Sardinian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmesa/

### Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)
* table

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmesa/ [ˈme.sa]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: me‧sa

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Cognate with Bengali মেজ (mej), Hindi मेज़ (mez), and Malayalam മേശ (mēśa).

#### Noun

mesa 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
    mesa directiva ― board of directors

##### Derived terms

* 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

* 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
* → Tausug: lamisahan
* → Ye'kwana: mesa
* → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
* → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mesa
* inflection of mesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “mesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmesa/ [ˈmɛː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: me‧sa

### Noun

mesa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ)
* table
    Synonym: lamesa
* the landing platform in the middle of a staircase

#### Derived terms

* sarhento-de-mesa

## Welsh
### Etymology

From mes (“acorns”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Cornish mesa.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈmɛsa/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈmeːsa/, /ˈmɛsa/
* Rhymes: -ɛsa

### Verb

mesa (first-person singular present mesaf)
* to gather acorns

#### Conjugation

| | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | impersonal | impersonal |
| | first | second | third | first | second | third | impersonal | impersonal |
| 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 | mesa | mesa | mesa | mesa | mesa | mesa |
| verbal adjectives | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy | mesedig mesadwy |
| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| Inflected colloquial forms | 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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* 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
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mesa]

### Noun

mesa (possessed mesai)
* table

### References

* 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

## Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

### Noun

mesa
* table.

### References

* 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, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16