mensor

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Latin

Etymology

From mētior (“measure”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

mēnsor m (genitive mēnsōris); third declension

  1. measurer
  2. (with frūmentī or frūmentārius) measurer of grain
  3. (with agrōrum or agrārius) land surveyor, surveyor of construction
  4. architect, engineer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mēnsor mēnsōrēs
Genitive mēnsōris mēnsōrum
Dative mēnsōrī mēnsōribus
Accusative mēnsōrem mēnsōrēs
Ablative mēnsōre mēnsōribus
Vocative mēnsor mēnsōrēs

Derived terms

References

  • “mensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mensor 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)
  • mensor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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