mensa

mensa · noun¹

1. Latin · learned borrowing frommēnsa“table, altar”
2. English todaymensa

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsa (“table, altar”). Doublet of mesa.

Mensa · proper noun²

1. Latin · borrowed frommensa“table”
2. English todayMensa

From Latin mensa (“table”). The organization promotes itself as a "round-table" society in which differences in the backgrounds of its members are considered irrelevant.

Mensa · proper noun³

From Mons Mensae (mensa (“table”)), from Montagne de la Table. Originally named Montagne de la Table after Table Mountain in South Africa in 1756 by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. By 1763 this had been Latinised as Mons Mensae. In 1922 the International Astronomical Union shortened this to Mensa.

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