mesa

See also: Mesa, mésa, Mésa, mesá, mésá, mėsa, mėsą, mesă, meša, Meša, meșa, meșă, meşə, and mɛ́sa

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK, US) enPR: māʹsə, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/
- Audio (RP) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪsə

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

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].

Derived terms

Mesa County

Translations

flat area of land

Bulgarian: плато n (plato)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 臺地／台地 (zh) (táidì)
Esperanto: altebenaĵo
Finnish: ylätasanko, pöytävuori (fi)
German: Tafelberg (de) m
Hebrew: הַר שֻׁלְחָן‎ (he) m (har shulrán)
Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
Italian: altopiano (it) m
Navajo: dah azką́
Norwegian: platå n
Russian: столова́я гора́ (ru) f (stolovája gorá)
Spanish: mesa (es)
Swedish: taffelberg (sv) n
Tagalog: talampas
Turkish: masa dağı
Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Anagrams

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

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/, [ˈme.sa]
Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

table

Chamicuro

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

table

Chavacano

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

table

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

table

French

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

mesa

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmesɐ]

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

table
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel,
  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 [veal]
  because it is a delightful dish
  that is appreciated in any table.
all items set on a table for a meal
board; directors of an organization
stall, stand
Synonym: trabanca
bed of a cart
stool
Synonyms: banqueta, meso, tallo
bench
Synonym: banco

Related terms

mesado
meso
mesoiro

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.

Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

Hausa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /méː.sàː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.sàː]

Noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

python
rubber hose

Highland Popoluca

Alternative forms

mensa (archaic)

Etymology

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

Noun

mesa

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

table

Latin

Etymology

Common alternative spelling of mēnsa, reflecting the regular pronunciation with loss of /n/ before /s/ accompanied by compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. The vowel may have been non-contrastively nasalised regardless of the spelling.

Pronunciation

(Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

Noun

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension

(proscribed) Alternative form of mēnsa ("table").
- 3rd–4th century C.E., Appendix Probi:
  mensa non mesa
  [The correct form is] mensa, not mesa.

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: measã
- Romanian: masă (see there for further descendants)
Dalmatian:
- maisa
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: mesa
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: maisa
Gallo-Romance:
- French: moise
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: mesa
- Asturian: mesa
- Portuguese: mesa (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: mesa (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings:
- → Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs)
- → Old Irish: mías
  - Irish: mias
  - Scottish Gaelic: mias
- Slovene: miza (unsorted borrowing)

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missa.

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

(Christianity) mass

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Luo

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili meza.

Noun

mesa

table
Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.
The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.

Maquiritari

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mesa]

Noun

mesa

table

References

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

Occitan

Etymology

From metre.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

placement, placing

Verb

mesa

feminine singular of the past participle of metre

Pali

Alternative forms

𑀫𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
मेस (Devanagari script)
মেস (Bengali script)
මෙස (Sinhalese script)
မေသ (Burmese script)
เมส or เมสะ (Thai script)
ᨾᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
ເມສ or ເມສະ (Lao script)
មេស (Khmer script)
𑄟𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

mesa m

ram

Declension

Declension table of "mesa" (masculine)

Case \\ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	meso	mesā
Accusative (second)	mesaṃ	mese
Instrumental (third)	mesena	mesehi or mesebhi
Dative (fourth)	mesassa or mesāya or mesatthaṃ	mesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	mesasmā or mesamhā or mesā	mesehi or mesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	mesassa	mesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	mesasmiṃ or mesamhi or mese	mesesu
Vocative (calling)	mesa	mesā

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

Noun

mesa

table

Portuguese

mesa

Etymology

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.

Not related to Persian ‎ (mēz, “table”). As both it and Portuguese mesa have been borrowed into different languages of southern Asia, they are sometimes confused by etymologists.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈme.zɐ/

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

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

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.
meal, food
Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.
Portugal has good food and good wine.
(geography) mesa
board (committee)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

→ Javanese: méja
→ Kadiwéu: nameeja
→ Kaingang: mẽja
→ Kituba: mesa
→ Lingala: mésá
→ Luganda: mmeeza
→ Malay: meja
- Indonesian: meja
→ Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
Papiamentu: mesa
→ Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
→ Tamil: மேசை (mēcai), மேஜை (mējai)

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)

wash clothing, launder

Sardinian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

table

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/ [ˈme.sa]
Rhymes: -esa
Syllabification: me‧sa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

table
(by extension) dinner table
¡A la mesa! ― Dinner is ready!
(geography) mesa
desk (in an office)
bureau, committee
Mesa de la Cámara ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
mesa electoral ― polling station
(business) board
mesa directiva ― board of directors

Derived terms

computadora de mesa
computador de mesa
de mesa ("tabletop")
juego de mesa
mesa de billar
mesa de cartas
mesa de comedor
mesa de luz
mesa de noche
mesa electoral
mesa ratona
mesa redonda
mesero
mesilla
mesita
poner la mesa
sal de mesa
sobremesa
tenis de mesa
tornamesas
vino de mesa

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
→ Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
→ Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mesa

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

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: me‧sa

IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/, [ˈme.sɐ]

Noun

mesa

table
Synonym: lamesa

Derived terms

sarhento-de-mesa

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)

to gather acorns

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	mesaf	mesi	mesa	meswn	meswch	mesant	mesir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	meswn	mesit	mesai	mesem	mesech	mesent	mesid
preterite	mesais	mesaist	mesodd	mesasom	mesasoch	mesasant	meswyd
pluperfect	mesaswn	mesasit	mesasai	mesasem	mesasech	mesasent	mesasid, mesesid
present subjunctive	meswyf	mesych	meso	mesom	mesoch	mesont	meser
imperative	—	mesa	mesed	meswn	meswch	mesent	meser
verbal noun	mesa
verbal adjectives	mesedig mesadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	mesa i, mesaf i	mesi di	mesith o/e/hi, mesiff e/hi	meswn ni	meswch chi	mesan nhw
conditional	meswn i	meset ti	mesai fo/fe/hi	mesen ni	mesech chi	mesen nhw
preterite	mesais i, meses i	mesaist ti, mesest ti	mesodd o/e/hi	meson ni	mesoch chi	meson nhw
imperative	—	mesa	—	—	meswch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mesa	fesa	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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

mesa

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

Noun

References

Asturian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Chamicuro

Etymology

Noun

Chavacano

Etymology

Noun

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Noun

French

Noun

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

References

Further reading

Gothic

Romanization

Hausa

Pronunciation

Noun

Highland Popoluca

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

References

Kituba

Etymology

Noun

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants

Latvian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Luo

Etymology

Noun

Maquiritari

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Occitan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Verb

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

Declension

Papiamentu

Etymology

Noun

Portuguese