Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. · a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
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