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Cognate with Latinmensa, ultimately uncertain. It is not clear which of the two senses was the original. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “mefa”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 29
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mēnsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 372
