mesa

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

• (UK, US) enPR: māʹsə, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/, /ˈmɛ.sə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə

mesa (plural mesas)

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

   Hyponyms: potrero, tuya

   Coordinate term: butte

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

   • 1895, J W 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:

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

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

     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].

2. (electronics) a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

   The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

• tablemount (homologous landform under the sea)

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., same, seam

From Latin mēnsa.

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mesa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: me‧sa

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

mesa f (plural meses)

1. (Christianity) altar
2. (Christianity) mense
3. board (executive team)
4. (billiards) game
5. (Alghero) table

   Synonym: table

• arquimesa
• mènsula

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

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

mesa f (plural meses)

1. (botany) bud, budding

   Synonym: brotada

• mesar

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

mesa f sg

1. feminine singular of mes

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

mesa

1. inflection of mesar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mesa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “mesa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

mesa

1. table

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

mesa

1. table

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

mesa

1. table

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. mesa

• “mesa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -esɐ, -esa
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

mesa f (plural mesas)

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

     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.

     Then I twelve partridges
     and a dozen and a half chickens
     I ought to take, God willing,
     and if I can a calf
     because it is a delightful dish
     that is appreciated in any table.

2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization
4. stall, stand

   Synonym: trabanca

5. bed of a cart
6. stool

   Synonyms: banqueta, meso, tallo

7. bench

   Synonym: banco

• “mesa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

• IPA^(key): /méː.sàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

• mensa (archaic)

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

mesa

1. table

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83

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

mesa

1. table

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension (proscribed)

1. Alternative spelling of mēnsa (“table”)