mesa

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

• (UK, US) enPR: māʹsə, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/, /ˈmɛ.sə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə

mesa (plural mesas)

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

   Hyponyms: potrero, tuya

   Coordinate term: butte

   A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:

     Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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].

2. (electronics) a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

   The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

• tablemount (homologous landform under the sea)

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

From Latin mēnsa.

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

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

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

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

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈme.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

mesa f (plural meses)

1. (Christianity) altar
2. (Christianity) mense
3. board (executive team)
4. (billiards) game
5. (Alghero) table

   Synonym: table

• arquimesa
• mènsula

From Latin missa, feminine perfect passive participle of mittō. Doublet of missa, a learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

mesa f (plural meses)

1. (botany) bud, budding

   Synonym: brotada

• mesar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

mesa f sg

1. feminine singular of mes

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.za]

mesa

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

• “mesa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mesa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

mesa

1. table

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

mesa

1. table

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

mesa

1. table

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. mesa

• “mesa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmesɐ]
• Rhymes: -esɐ, -esa
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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.

2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization
4. stall, stand

   Synonym: trabanca

5. bed of a cart
6. stool

   Synonyms: banqueta, meso, tallo

7. bench

   Synonym: banco

• “mesa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mēsa

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

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

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

• mensa (archaic)

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

mesa

1. table

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

mesa

1. table

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension (proscribed)

1. alternative spelling of mēnsa (“table”)
   • [3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 152:

     mensa non mesa

     (The correct form is) mensa, not mesa]

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from Latin missa.

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

mesa

1. table

mesa

1. table

Borrowed from Swahili meza.

mesa

1. table

   Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.

   The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.

From metre.

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mesa f (plural mesas)

1. placement, placing

mesa

1. feminine singular of the past participle of metre

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.sɑ/, [ˈme.zɑ]

mesa

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mes

mesa m

1. ram

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

mesa

1. table

From Old Galician-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 میز (mêz, “table”). As both it and Portuguese mesa have been borrowed into different languages of southern Asia, they are sometimes confused by etymologists.

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

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. 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.

2. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

3. (geography) mesa
4. board (committee)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.

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

• “mesa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)

1. wash clothing, launder

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/ [ˈme.sa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: me‧sa

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Cognate with Bengali মেজ (mej), Hindi मेज़ (mez), and Malayalam മേശ (mēśa).

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. (by extension) dinner table

   ¡A la mesa! ― Dinner is ready!

3. (geography) mesa
4. desk (in an office)
5. bureau, committee

   Mesa de la Cámara ― House Committee

   mesa electoral ― polling station

6. (business) board

   mesa directiva ― board of directors

• 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
• → Tausug: lamisahan
• → Ye'kwana: mesa
• → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mesa

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

• “mesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/ [ˈmɛː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: me‧sa

mesa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ)

1. table

   Synonym: lamesa

2. the landing platform in the middle of a staircase

From mes (“acorns”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Cornish mesa.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsa/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːsa/, /ˈmɛsa/
• Rhymes: -ɛsa

mesa (first-person singular present mesaf)

1. to gather acorns

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mesa”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

• IPA^(key): [mesa]

mesa (possessed mesai)

1. table

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mesa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mesai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

mesa

1. table.

• 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^[4], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16