mesa

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

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

mesa (plural mesas)

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

   Coordinate term: butte

   Hyponyms: potrero, tuya

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

   • 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].

• Mesa County

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AMEs, ASME, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, 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): [ˈme.sa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

mesa

1. table

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

mesa

1. table

Borrowed from Spanish mesa

mesa

1. table

From Old Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa from Latin mēnsa.

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa.

mesa

1. table

From mēnsa, which underwent elision. This term is attested in the Appendix Probi[1], a compilation of common mistakes written in the Late Antiquity.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.sa/

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension

1. (Vulgar Latin) Alternative form of mēnsa ("table").
   • 3rd–4th century CE, Appendix Probi:

     mēnsa non mēsa

     [Use] mēnsa, not mēsa.

First declension.

First declension.

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

mesa m

1. ram

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

mesa

1. table

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

Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.

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

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)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesa.

• mesinha

• “mesa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

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

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. mesa

(diminutive mesilla or mesita)

• mesero

• O'odham: miːsa

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

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

mesa

1. table

• lamesa (often used interchangeably with mesa)

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mensa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

mesa

1. Table.

• 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