ménsula

See also: mensula and mènsula

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsŭla (“small table”), diminutive of mensa (“table”).

Noun

ménsula f (plural ménsulas)

1. (architecture) bracket, corbel

Further reading

• “ménsula”, 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