mensura

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /menˈsuː.ra/, [mẽːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈsu.ra/, [menˈsuːrä]

From mēnsus, from mētior (“to measure”).

mēnsūra f (genitive mēnsūrae); first declension

1. measure; a measuring
2. (by extension) a standard or measure by which something is measured
3. (figuratively) a quantity or amount

First-declension noun.

• mēnsūrābilis
• mēnsūrālis
• mēnsūrō

• mēnsūrātiō
• mēnsūrātor
• mētior

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mēnsūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēnsūrō

• “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mensura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mensura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mensura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /menˈsuɾa/ [mẽnˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: men‧su‧ra

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsūra.

mensura f (plural mensuras)

1. measurement

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mensura

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

• “mensura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014