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mensa
Latin · ancient
"table"
meaning "table"
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mesa
Spanish · medieval
"table; flat-topped hill"
kept the meaning of a flat table or tableland
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mesa
English · 1800s
"an isolated flat-topped hill"
adopted by English-speaking settlers in the American Southwest
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