English
amensal
Amensal comes from Latin mensa ‘table, food’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmensa‘table, food’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002amensal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmensa‘table, food’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002amensal
Earliest quotation: 2002, Peter L. Lutz, The Biology of Sea Turtles: “Descriptions of the plight of sea turtles in the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, moral, sunny, meal, meter, moody, metric, metre, meta, asymmetry, madder, menstrual, metrology, mete, metis, firman, metra, moodiness, menses, 61 more
through Proto-Italic *mētis
dimensional, dimensionless, 17 more
through Latin mētior ‘to measure’
measure, dimension, commensurate, 19 more
through Latin mēnsus ‘measured’
through Latin mensa ‘table, food’
Today it means
adj Relating to amensalism.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mensa / amensal