mensura

Latin

Etymology

From mēnsus, from mētior (“measure”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /menˈsuː.ra/, [mẽːˈsuː.ra]

Noun

mēnsūra f (genitive mēnsūrae); first declension

  1. measure; a measuring
  2. (by extension) a standard or measure by which something is measured
  3. (figuratively) a quantity or amount

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mēnsūra mēnsūrae
genitive mēnsūrae mēnsūrārum
dative mēnsūrae mēnsūrīs
accusative mēnsūram mēnsūrās
ablative mēnsūrā mēnsūrīs
vocative mēnsūra mēnsūrae

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

mēnsūrā

  1. 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, 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

Noun

mensura f (plural mensuras)

  1. measurement
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