menso

Learned borrowing from Latin mēns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenso/

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• Rhymes: -enso
• Syllabification: men‧so

menso (accusative singular menson, plural mensoj, accusative plural mensojn)

1. mind
   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 20:

     "Mi pensas pri la rakontoj kiuj parolas pri homoj en Hadeso - ke maljustulo devas esti punata tie. Eble oni antaŭe ridis pri tiaj rakontoj, sed nun la menso ekdubas, eble ili estas veraj."

     "I think about the stories which talk about people in Hades - that the unjust must be punished there. Perhaps one previously laughed about these stories, but now the mind begins to doubt, maybe they are true."

• mensa (“mental”)
• mense (“mentally”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmẽː.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.so]

mēnsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mēnsus

• IPA^(key): /mʲæn̪ˈs̪óː/

menso

1. meat
   • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary

     Vleysch   Menso

Arguably taken from Latin mēnsa (“table”); it is thought that medieval monks used the names of inanimate objects in disparaging reference to illiterate or non‐discerning people, partially out of a desire to not use an explicitly pejorative insult as would be forbidden by their canons.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenso/ [ˈmẽn.so]
• Rhymes: -enso
• Syllabification: men‧so

menso (feminine mensa, masculine plural mensos, feminine plural mensas) (offensive)

1. (Mexico, Central America) foolish, dull

   Synonyms: bobo, insensato, tarado, tonto

   Antonyms: aguzado, brillante, inteligente, listo

2. (Mexico, Central America) distracted, absent-minded

   Synonyms: absorto, distraído

   Antonyms: aguzado, atento, concentrado

3. (Mexico) ignorant

   Synonym: ignorante

   Antonyms: conocedor, inteligente, sabio

4. (Mexico) inexpert

   Synonyms: inexperto, novato, principiante

   Antonyms: conocedor, experto, perito

5. (Mexico) timid, shy

   Synonyms: chiveado, penoso, tímido

   Antonyms: aventado, decidido, valiente

6. (Mexico) ingenuous, naive

   Synonyms: inexperto, ingenuo

   Antonyms: colmilludo, sagaz

• Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts these adjectives each have a different degree of severity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in this rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive sense.

• “menso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• menos
• mesón