mesana
Spanish, noun/meˈsana/
mesana is spelled M-E-S-A-N-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 107,397th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mesana is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “mizzen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mástil más a popa en un velero de tres palos”.
What does mesana mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemizzen
Tenía dos vergas en el palo de trinquete, y en el de mesana que era pequeñísimo flotaba un jirón rojo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mástil más a popa en un velero de tres palos.
noun: 1. Vela que en este mástil va atada a un cangrejo (verga movible horizontal y verticalmente).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mesana
- mesanas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mesana?
- /meˈsana/
- [meˈsa.na]
- [meˈsana]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mesana in Spanish?
mesana appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).