# mensa
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsa (“table, altar”). Doublet of mesa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.
** 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.

### Anagrams

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

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From menso +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmensa]
* Rhymes: -ensa
* Hyphenation: men‧sa

### Adjective

mensa
* mental

## Highland Popoluca
### Noun

mensa
* Archaic form of mesa.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēnsa (“table”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛn.sa/
* Audio:(file)
* 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

* ↑ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mensa_(Enciclopedia-Dantesca)

### Anagrams

* manse

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* mēsa (Late Latin, proscribed)

### Etymology 1

Probably a nominalization of the feminine form of the perfect passive participle mēnsus (“measured”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmẽːs̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmen.sa/, [ˈmɛnsä]

#### Noun

mēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension
* a table
* a table of food; meal, course, feast
* an altar (sacrificial table)

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* mēnsārius
* ā mēnsā et thorō

##### Descendants

* Vulgar Latin: mēsa (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → English: mensa (learned)
** → French: mense
** → German: Mensa
** → Spanish: mensa, menso (possibly)
** → Italian: mensa
** → Occitan: mensa
** → Slovene: míza

### 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’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, 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
* “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, 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
### Adjective

mensa
* feminine singular of menso