Where does “meseta” come from?

meseta (Spanish) comes from Spanish 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.

meseta (Spanish): plateau

Definitions

  1. plateau

Ancestry of “meseta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishmesatable; mesa
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 “meseta

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus