desmesura

See also: desmesurá

Catalan

Etymology

From des- +‎ mesura.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

desmesura f (plural desmesures)

1. (uncountable) excess (lack of moderation)
2. (countable) excess (disproportionate action)
   • 1969, Octavi Fullat, El crac universitari:

     Quan el maig del mil noucents seixanta vuit, els estudiants de Paris cometeren desmesures —convé precisar, per contrast, que no hi ha costum enlloc de qualificar de desmesura les desmesures legalitzades, i consti que n'hi ha— vaig sentir com un bon home s'exclamava: "Potser tindran raó en el que demanen, però la forma de fer-ho és totalment incorrecta".

     When, in May of nineteen sixty-eight, the students of Paris committed excesses--it should be noted, by contrast, that there is no custom of describing legalised excesses as excesses, and it's obvious these exist--I felt that simple souls exclaimed, "Maybe they are right in what they are asking but their way of going about it is all wrong."

Derived terms

• desmesurat

Further reading

• “desmesura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desmesura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “desmesura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desmesura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From des- +‎ mesura.

Noun

desmesura f (plural desmesuras)

1. excess
2. lack of measuring or control

Etymology 2

Verb

desmesura

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

Further reading

• “desmesura”, 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