mensus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of mētior (“measure”). Its formation with /ns/ is irregular, probably due to analogy with pēnsus (“weighed”) (underlyingly /pend-tus/).

Participle

mēnsus (feminine mēnsa, neuter mēnsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. measured, estimated
  2. distributed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mēnsus mēnsa mēnsum mēnsī mēnsae mēnsa
Genitive mēnsī mēnsae mēnsī mēnsōrum mēnsārum mēnsōrum
Dative mēnsō mēnsō mēnsīs
Accusative mēnsum mēnsam mēnsum mēnsōs mēnsās mēnsa
Ablative mēnsō mēnsā mēnsō mēnsīs
Vocative mēnse mēnsa mēnsum mēnsī mēnsae mēnsa

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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, pages 372–373

Further reading

  • “mensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • mensus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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