comensal
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin commēnsālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ku.mənˈsal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ko.mənˈsal]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ko.menˈsal]
Noun
[edit]comensal m (plural comensals)
- commensal, fellow diner
- 2017 January 4, Laura Estirado, “El #SentadorDeMadres, per un Nadal en igualtat”, in El Periódico[1]:
- En poc més de dos dies, el vídeo protagonitzat per una atribolada 'mare tipus' al voltant d'una concorreguda taula --amb comensals imaginaris on podríem fer seure els nostres cunyats, germanes, oncles i nebots, per exemple-- ha aconseguit més de 400.000 visualitzacions i moltes més comparticions a Facebook i Twitter.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “comensal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “comensal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “comensal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “comensal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin commēnsālis, from com- + mensa (“table”) + -ālis.
Noun
[edit]comensal m or f by sense (plural comensais)
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin commēnsālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]comensal m or f by sense (plural comensales)
- messmate, commensal, fellow diner, dining companion
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 216:
- Cuando hay trece personas reunidas a la hora de comer, se presagian grandes males; pero si entre los comensales hay una mujer encinta, el agüero se destruye, pues el feto entra también en la cuenta y con él se completan los catorce.
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “comensal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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