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See also: mensa, mēnsa, and mens'a

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛnsə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnsə

Etymology 1

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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.

Proper noun

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Mensa

  1. Mensa International, an organization for people with very high IQs.
Derived terms
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  • Mensan
See also
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  • Mensa International on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mensa's website

Etymology 2

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English Wikipedia has an article on:Mensa (constellation)Wikipedia

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.

Proper noun

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Mensa

  1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.
Derived terms
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  • Mensae
Translations
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  • Danish: Taffelbjerget
  • Dutch: Tafelberg (nl) m
  • Esperanto: Tablomonto
  • Finnish: Pöytä
  • French: Table (fr) f
  • Galician: Mesa (gl)
  • German: Tafelberg (de) m
  • Irish: an Tábla m
  • Malay: Gunung Datar
  • Norwegian: Bordet (no)
  • Polish: Stół m
  • Russian: Столо́вая Гора́ f (Stolóvaja Gorá)
  • Spanish: Mensa
  • Swedish: Taffelberget (sv) n

Anagrams

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  • namés, names, Seman, amens, manes, neams, ñames, mesna, Means, Manes, manse, means

German

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German Wikipedia has an article on:MensaWikipedia de

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛnzaː/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

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Mensa f (genitive Mensa, plural Mensen)

  1. cafeteria (at a university), student canteen

Declension

[edit] Declension of Mensa [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Mensa die Mensen
genitive einer der Mensa der Mensen
dative einer der Mensa den Mensen
accusative eine die Mensa die Mensen

Further reading

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  • “Mensa” in Duden online
  • “Mensa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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