The story
- Latin · learned borrowing froma mensa et thoro“from board and bed”
- English todaya mensa et thoro
Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
a mensa et thoro
Today it means: That does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes the husband and wife to live apart from each other. Full definition →
Latin a mensa et thoro