mensuro

Latin

Etymology

From mēnsūra (a measure) +‎ -o (verb-forming suffix). Documented from the fourth century CE onward.[1]

Verb

mēnsūrō (present infinitive mēnsūrāre, perfect active mēnsūrāvī, supine mēnsūrātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to measure
  2. to estimate

Usage notes

The Classical Latin counterpart was metior.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: misur
  • Catalan: mesurar
  • French: mesurer
  • Friulian: misurâ
  • Italian: misurare
  • Norman: m'suther
  • Occitan: mesurar
  • Portuguese: mesurar, mensurar
  • Romanian: măsura
  • Romansch: mesirar, masirar, misirar, masürar, imsürer
  • Sicilian: misurari
  • Spanish: mesurar, mensurar
  • Venetan: mexurar

References

  • mensuro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mensuro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mēnsūrāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 728

Spanish

Verb

mensuro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mensurar