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mensurare

Mensurare is a Latin verb meaning to measure or to determine the extent, size, or quantity of something. In classical Latin, it denotes the act of measurement and is used with a direct object to express what is being measured—lengths, areas, volumes, distances, or other quantities. As the infinitive form of a first-conjugation verb, mensurare appears in many Latin texts in contexts ranging from practical surveying to mathematical description and legal or architectural discussion.

The noun mensura, derived from the same root, denotes a measure or the act of measuring, and

In modern scholarship, mensurare is primarily of philological and historical interest as an example of a classical

See also: Mensura; Mensuration; Metrology; Measurement; Latin grammar.

from
this
noun
English
terms
such
as
measurement
and
mensuration
ultimately
descend.
The
verb
yields
various
participial
and
nominal
forms
that
appear
in
scholarly
discussions
of
metrology
and
geometry,
contributing
to
the
vocabulary
of
measurement
in
Latin
and
its
descendants.
1st-conjugation
verb.
It
is
not
commonly
used
in
everyday
Latin
prose,
which
tends
to
employ
more
specialized
verbs
for
specific
senses
of
measurement.