mesa

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪsə

Noun

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[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:

     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].

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tablemount (homologous landform under the sea)

Further reading

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

References

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

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/,
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

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

   Synonym: table

Related terms

• arquimesa
• mènsula

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. (botany) bud, budding

   Synonym: brotada

Derived terms

• mesar

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Participle

mesa f sg

1. feminine singular of mes

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mesa

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

Further reading

• “mesa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mesa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chamicuro

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table

Chavacano

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table

French

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. mesa

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

Related terms

References

• “mesa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mesa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mesa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mesa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mesa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

• “mesa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

Highland Popoluca

Alternative forms

• mensa (archaic)

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table

References

• 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

Kituba

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table

Latin

Noun

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

1. Alternative spelling of mēnsa (“table”)
   • 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 152:

     mensa non mesa

     mensa, not mesa

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missa.

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Lingala

Noun

mesa

1. table

Luba-Kasai

Noun

mesa

1. table

Luo

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili meza.

Noun

mesa

1. table

   Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.

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

Occitan

Etymology

From metre.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. placement, placing

Verb

mesa

1. feminine singular of the past participle of metre

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

mesa m

1. ram

Declension

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

Noun

mesa

1. table

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mesa

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.za/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table (item of furniture)

   José, põe a mesa, por favor.

   José, please set the table.

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

     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.

     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.

2. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

3. (geography) mesa
4. board (committee)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.

Derived terms

• mesa-de-cabeceira
• mesinha (diminutive)
• mesona (augmentative)

Descendants

Further reading

• “mesa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)

1. wash clothing, launder

Sardinian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: me‧sa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. (by extension) dinner table

   ¡A la mesa! ― Dinner is ready!

3. (geography) mesa
4. desk (in an office)
5. bureau, committee

   Mesa de la Cámara ― House Committee

   mesa electoral ― polling station

6. (business) board

   mesa directiva ― board of directors

Derived terms

Descendants

• 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
• → Ye'kwana: mesa
• → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mesa

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

Further reading

• “mesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/,
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ)

1. table

   Synonym: lamesa

Derived terms

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsa/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːsa/, /ˈmɛsa/
• Rhymes: -ɛsa

Verb

mesa (first-person singular present mesaf)

1. to gather acorns

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mesa”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

mesa (possessed mesai)

1. table

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mesa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mesai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

1. table.

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) “Tlen ticuih itich in cocina”, in Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16