English
mensa
Mensa comes from Latin mēnsa ‘table, altar’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmēnsa‘table, altar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1993mensa
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmēnsa‘table, altar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1993mensa
Earliest quotation: 1993, B. Don Taylor, The Complete Training Course for Altar Guilds: “Some churches also have an altar stone, a separate…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, moral, meal, sunny, meter, moody, metric, metre, meta, asymmetry, menstrual, madder, metrology, firman, mete, metis, moodiness, metra, menses, 62 more
through Proto-Italic *mētis
through Latin mētior ‘to measure’
measure, dimensional, dimension, commensurate, 19 more
through Latin mēnsus ‘measured’
through Latin mēnsa ‘table, altar’
Today it means
noun In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mēnsa / mensa