mesa

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.


mesa

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.


mesa

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


mesa

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of mesar:
second-person singular imperative


mesa

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


mesa

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


mesa

A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.

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:

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].

2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times:

Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

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


mesa

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.

1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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.

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


mesa

𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰#Gothic


mesa

ha-noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

mēsā̀ (canonical feminine)
mēsōshī (plural)
mēsàr̃ (possessed-form)


mesa

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


mesa

mensa non mesa

[3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 152:

la-noun

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension

mēsa (canonical feminine)
mēsae (genitive)
mēsa (nominative singular)
mēsae (nominative plural)
mēsae (genitive singular)
mēsārum (genitive plural)
mēsae (dative singular)
mēsīs (dative plural)
mēsam (accusative singular)
mēsās (accusative plural)
mēsā (ablative singular)
mēsīs (ablative plural)
mēsa (singular vocative)
mēsae (plural vocative)

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)


mesa

Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.

The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.


mesa

feminine singular of the past participle of metre


mesa

mēsa (canonical feminine)
mēsa (nominative singular)
mēsa (nominative plural)
mēson (nominative plural)
mēsa (accusative singular)
mēson (accusative singular)
mēsa (accusative plural)
mēson (accusative plural)
mēson (genitive singular)
mēsono (genitive plural)
mēson (dative singular)
mēson (dative plural)

Middle Dutch: mêse

Dutch: mees

From Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ. It is only attested in to-names.


mesa

nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mes


mesa

meso (nominative singular)
mesā (nominative plural)
mesaṃ (accusative singular)
mese (accusative plural)
mesena (instrumental singular)
mesehi (instrumental plural)
mesebhi (instrumental plural)
mesassa (dative singular)
mesāya (dative singular)
mesatthaṃ (dative singular)
mesānaṃ (dative plural)
mesasmā (ablative singular)
mesamhā (ablative singular)
mesā (ablative singular)
mesehi (ablative plural)
mesebhi (ablative plural)
mesassa (genitive singular)
mesānaṃ (genitive plural)
mesasmiṃ (locative singular)
mesamhi (locative singular)
mese (locative singular)
mesesu (locative plural)
mesa (singular vocative)
mesā (plural vocative)


mesa

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.


mesa

José, põe a mesa, por favor.

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.

2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 6:

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.

Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

→ Javanese: méja

→ Kadiwéu: nameeja

→ Kaingang: mẽja

→ Kituba: mesa

→ Lingala: mésá

→ Luganda: mmeeza

desctree

→ Malay: meja
> Indonesian: meja (inherited)

→ Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)

Papiamentu: mesa

→ Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)

→ Tamil: மேசை (mēcai), மேஜை (mējai)

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.


mesa

rw-verb

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)

-mesa (canonical)
kumesa (infinitive)
-meshe (perfective)


mesa

¡A la mesa!

Mesa de la Cámara

mesa electoral

mesa directiva

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

desc

→ Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

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


mesa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


mesa

the landing platform in the middle of a staircase

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


mesa

cy-verb

mesa (first-person singular present mesaf)

mesaf (first-person present singular)
mesaf (first-person future indicative present singular)
mesi (future indicative present second-person singular)
mesa (future indicative present singular third-person)
meswn (first-person future indicative plural present)
meswch (future indicative plural present second-person)
mesant (future indicative plural present third-person)
mesir (future impersonal indicative present)
meswn (conditional first-person singular)
meswn (first-person imperfect indicative singular subjunctive)
mesit (conditional second-person singular)
mesit (imperfect indicative second-person singular subjunctive)
mesai (conditional singular third-person)
mesai (imperfect indicative singular subjunctive third-person)
mesem (conditional first-person plural)
mesem (first-person imperfect indicative plural subjunctive)
mesech (conditional plural second-person)
mesech (imperfect indicative plural second-person subjunctive)
mesent (conditional plural third-person)
mesent (imperfect indicative plural subjunctive third-person)
mesid (conditional impersonal)
mesid (imperfect impersonal indicative subjunctive)
mesais (first-person preterite singular)
mesaist (preterite second-person singular)
mesodd (preterite singular third-person)
mesasom (first-person plural preterite)
mesasoch (plural preterite second-person)
mesasant (plural preterite third-person)
meswyd (impersonal preterite)
mesaswn (first-person pluperfect singular)
mesasit (pluperfect second-person singular)
mesasai (pluperfect singular third-person)
mesasem (first-person pluperfect plural)
mesasech (pluperfect plural second-person)
mesasent (pluperfect plural third-person)
mesasid (impersonal pluperfect)
mesesid (impersonal pluperfect)
meswyf (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mesych (present second-person singular subjunctive)
meso (present singular subjunctive third-person)
mesom (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mesoch (plural present second-person subjunctive)
mesont (plural present subjunctive third-person)
meser (impersonal present subjunctive)
mesa (imperative second-person singular)
mesed (imperative singular third-person)
meswn (first-person imperative plural)
meswch (imperative plural second-person)
mesent (imperative plural third-person)
meser (imperative impersonal)
mesa (noun-from-verb singular)
mesedig (participle singular)
mesadwy (participle singular)
mesa i (first-person future singular)
mesaf i (first-person future singular)
mesi di (future second-person singular)
mesith o (future singular third-person)
e (future singular third-person)
hi (future singular third-person)
mesiff e (future singular third-person)
meswn ni (first-person future plural)
meswch chi (future plural second-person)
mesan nhw (future plural third-person)
meswn i (conditional first-person singular)
meset ti (conditional second-person singular)
mesai fo (conditional singular third-person)
fe (conditional singular third-person)
hi (conditional singular third-person)
mesen ni (conditional first-person plural)
mesech chi (conditional plural second-person)
mesen nhw (conditional plural third-person)
mesais i (first-person preterite singular)
meses i (first-person preterite singular)
mesaist ti (preterite second-person singular)
mesest ti (preterite second-person singular)
mesodd o (preterite singular third-person)
e (preterite singular third-person)
hi (preterite singular third-person)
meson ni (first-person plural preterite)
mesoch chi (plural preterite second-person)
meson nhw (plural preterite third-person)
mesa (imperative second-person singular)
meswch (imperative plural second-person)
mesa
fesa (soft)

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


mesa

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