mesura

mesura

See also: mesurá

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement

References

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

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mesura, from Latin mensūra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈzu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /meˈzu.ɾa/

Noun

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measurement

Derived terms

• a mesura que
• en la mesura que

Related terms

• mesurar

References

• “mesura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mesura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “mesura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mesura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Verb

mesura

1. third-person singular past historic of mesurer

Anagrams

• amuser, masure, Maures, maures, mueras, musera, remuas, résuma, ruâmes

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesura, from Latin mensūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈsuɾɐ]

Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. moderation, restraint
2. affectation; flattery
   • 1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

     "!Ai qu'engañadiña estás! Non te creas de baiuras, nin de quen faga mesuras, que a culpa tivoa o rapaz."

     Ah, you're so wrong! Don't believe in tricks nor in who say flatteries, because the blame is on the boy!

Related terms

• desmesura
• desmesurado
• medir
• mesurado
• sen mesura

 

References

• “mesura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mesura” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mesura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mesura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Interlingua

Noun

mesura (plural mesuras)

1. measure, intervention, approach
2. measure, extent

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Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mensura.

Noun

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measure (all senses); rule
2. dose

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Spanish

Noun

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement; restraint

Verb

mesura

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

Further reading

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