Dictionary formmensa, mensae(feminine)
Translation
table; meal, course
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | mensa | mensae |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | mensa | mensae |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | mensam | mensas |
| Genitiveof | mensae | mensarum |
| Dativeto, for | mensae | mensis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | mensa | mensis |
Examples
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The table is long and heavy.
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He put the food on the table.
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He called his friends to table.
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The second course was sweet.
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Bread was placed on the sacred table.
Mensa, mensae, f., first declension. The table, and then by an obvious extension what is served on it, so mensae in the plural is often courses rather than furniture: mensa secunda is the pudding course, and prima mensa the main one.
It also does duty as a banker's counter, mensa argentaria, and in the church corpus for the altar slab itself. Keep it apart from mensis, mensis, m., "month", and from mensura, "measurement": the three look like a family and are not one, however tidy that would be.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 12: mensa, ludus, continuo and 7 more words.