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mensas

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

Found 113 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.131: … it, non ut conservaret verum ut asportaret requisivit. iam illa quae leviora videbuntur ideo praeteribo, quod mensas Delphicas e marmore, crateras ex aere pulcherrimas, vim maximam vasorum Corinthiorum ex omnibus aedibus sacri …

Martial, Epigrammata 10.54.1: Mensas, Ole, bonas ponis, sed ponis opertas.

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.