1º_ Augmentative masculinized of "table", it is said of a long and robust, also of a counter of store or local of food. 2º_ Kind of very rustic restaurant, usually in the passage of travelers. The name may come from the previous one, but as many inns also offered a room with a bed for the night, it is likely that the name comes from the French maison (inn "hearth, house"). 3º_ In physics it is a type of subatomic particle. Its name is taken from the Greek 956; 949; 963; 959; 962; ( mesos "in the middle" ) , because it was supposed to be responsible for the force that bound the proton to the neutron.