meseta

Borrowed from Spanish meseta.

meseta (plural mesetas)

1. A plateau, especially in Spanish-speaking countries.
   • 2002, Ralph Penny, “The Latin of Spain”, in A History of the Spanish Language, Cambridge University Press:

     This factor is particularly relevant to the history of Spanish, since Spanish has its geographical roots in what is now the northern part of the province of Burgos, an area of the northern meseta which was remote from the centres of economic activity and cultural prestige in Roman Spain, which was latinized fairly late, […]

• “meseta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

From mesa (“raised land”) +‎ -eta (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /meˈseta/ [meˈse.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: me‧se‧ta

meseta f (plural mesetas)

1. (geography) plateau

• “meseta”, 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