mesura

Inherited from Latin mēnsūra.

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement

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

Inherited from Old Catalan mesura, from Latin mēnsūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈzu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈzu.ɾa]

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measurement

   Synonyms: mesurament, mesuratge

2. measure (move towards a goal)

   Synonym: mitjà

   No es van prendre mesures per evitar-ho.

   No measures were taken to avoid it.

3. measure (receptacle for measuring)
4. (figurative) moderation, restraint

   Synonym: moderació

• a mesura que
• desmesura
• en la mesura que
• omplir la mesura
• ultra mesura

• mesurar

• “mesura”, 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
• “mesura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mesura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mesura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mesura

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

mesura

1. third-person singular past historic of mesurer

• amuser, masure, Maures, maures, mueras, musera, remuas, résuma, ruâmes

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesura, from Latin mensūra.

• IPA^(key): [meˈsuɾɐ]

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. moderation, restraint
2. affectation; flattery
   • 1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

     "!Ai qu'engañadiña estás! Non te creas de baiuras, nin de quen faga mesuras, que a culpa tivoa o rapaz."

     Ah, you're so wrong! Don't believe in tricks nor in who say flatteries, because the blame is on the boy!

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesura”, 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), “mesura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

mesura (plural mesuras)

1. measure, intervention, approach
2. measure, extent

From Latin mensura.

mesura f (plural mesures)

1. measure (all senses); rule
2. dose

• IPA^(key): /meˈsuɾa/ [meˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: me‧su‧ra

Inherited from Latin mēnsūra (“measurement”).

mesura f (plural mesuras)

1. measurement; restraint

mesura

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

• “mesura”, 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