Where does “mesure” come from?

mesure (Middle English) comes from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra, from Latin mētior, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.

Ancestry of “mesure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmesure—
2Latinmēnsūrameasure; a measuring
3Latinmētiorto measure or estimate
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₁-to measure

Words derived from “mesure”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- →Every word from Latin mētior →Every word from Latin mēnsūra →