Where does “mesa” come from?

mesa (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mesa, from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mesa (Portuguese): table; meal, food; mesa

Definitions

  1. table; meal, food; mesa

Ancestry of “mesa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesemesatable
2Vulgar LatinmesaAlternative form of mēnsa
3Latinmēnsaa table
4Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “mesa

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus