mensus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of mētior (“measure”). Its formation with /ns/ is irregular, probably due to analogy with pēnsus (“weighed”) (underlyingly /pend-tus/).[1]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mēnsus | mēnsa | mēnsum | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsa | |
| Genitive | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsī | mēnsōrum | mēnsārum | mēnsōrum | |
| Dative | mēnsō | mēnsō | mēnsīs | ||||
| Accusative | mēnsum | mēnsam | mēnsum | mēnsōs | mēnsās | mēnsa | |
| Ablative | mēnsō | mēnsā | mēnsō | mēnsīs | |||
| Vocative | mēnse | mēnsa | mēnsum | mēnsī | mēnsae | mēnsa | |
References
- 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
- “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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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