mensus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect active participle of mētior (“measure”). Its formation with /ns/ is irregular, probably due to analogy with pēnsus (“weighed”) (underlyingly /pend-tus/).[1]
Participle
[edit]mēnsus (feminine mēnsa, neuter mēnsum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | mēnsus | mēnsa | mēnsum | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsa | |
| genitive | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsī | mēnsōrum | mēnsārum | mēnsōrum | |
| dative | mēnsō | mēnsae | mēnsō | mēnsīs | |||
| accusative | mēnsum | mēnsam | mēnsum | mēnsōs | mēnsās | mēnsa | |
| ablative | mēnsō | mēnsā | mēnsō | mēnsīs | |||
| vocative | mēnse | mēnsa | mēnsum | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsa | |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mēnsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 372–373
Further reading
[edit]- “mensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- mensus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016