mensura
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /menˈsuː.ra/, [mẽːˈs̠uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /menˈsu.ra/, [menˈsuːrä]
Etymology 1
From mēnsus, from mētior (“to measure”).
Noun
mēnsūra f (genitive mēnsūrae); first declension
- measure; a measuring
- (by extension) a standard or measure by which something is measured
- (figuratively) a quantity or amount
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mēnsūra | mēnsūrae |
| Genitive | mēnsūrae | mēnsūrārum |
| Dative | mēnsūrae | mēnsūrīs |
| Accusative | mēnsūram | mēnsūrās |
| Ablative | mēnsūrā | mēnsūrīs |
| Vocative | mēnsūra | mēnsūrae |
Derived terms
- mēnsūrābilis
- mēnsūrālis
- mēnsūrō
Related terms
- mēnsūrātiō
- mēnsūrātor
- mētior
Descendants
- → Albanian: mëshere, mueshirë
- Aromanian: misurã
- Catalan: mesura
- Friulian: misure
- Galician: mesura
- → Irish: measair
- Italian: misura
- Ladin: mesura
- Occitan: mesura
- Old French: mesure
- French: mesure
- → Irish: miosúr
- → Middle English: mesure
- English: measure
- Norman: m'suthe
- Walloon: muzeure
- Portuguese: mesura
- Romanian: măsură
- Romansch: mesira, masira, maseira, masüra, imsüra
- → Russian: мензура (menzura)
- Sardinian: mesura, misura
- Sicilian: misura
- Spanish: mesura, → mensura (learned)
- Venetian: mexura
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mēnsūrā
- second-person singular present active imperative of mēnsūrō
References
- “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mensura 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)
- mensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “mensura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mensura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Spanish
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsūra.
Noun
mensura f (plural mensuras)
- measurement
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mensura
- inflection of mensurar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “mensura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014