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mensam

mensam is a Latin form of mensa, meaning “table; meal, course”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 92 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.37: … s et experientis et in primis gratiosi, supellectilem omnem auferre non dubitasti, tu maximam et pulcherrimam mensam citream a Q. Lutatio Diodoro, qui Q. Catuli beneficio ab L. Sulla civis Romanus factus est, omnibus scientibu …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.660: Accubuere dei. Mensam succincta tremensque

Plautus, Menaechmi 1.1.89: apud ménsam plenam homini rostrum deliges;

All forms of mensa (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.