tabula

See also tabulā

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

tabula (plural tabulae)

1. A table or tablet.
2. (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Related terms

• tabula rasa

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tabulas, tabulât

Verb

tabula

1. third-person singular past historic of tabuler

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈta.bu.la/

Noun

tabula (plural tabulas)

1. (item of furniture) table

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Italian

Verb

tabula

1. third-person singular present indicative of tabulare
2. second-person singular imperative of tabulare

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Latin

Tabula Franciae cum flumine Ligere insignata ^W
Map of France with river Loire

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *th₂-dʰlo-, from *teh₂- (“to stand”) + *-dʰlo- (“instrumental suffix”). The original meaning would then be “that which stands”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈta.bu.la/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

tabula (genitive tabulae); f, first declension

1. tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing
2. board or plank
3. (by extension) map, painting, document or other item put onto a tablet

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tabula	tabulae
genitive	tabulae	tabulārum
dative	tabulae	tabulīs
accusative	tabulam	tabulās
ablative	tabulā	tabulīs
vocative	tabula	tabulae

Synonyms

• (map): charta, fōrma

Derived terms

• tabulāmentum
• tabulāris
• tabulārius
• tabulātim

• tabulātiō
• tabulātus
• tabulīnum
• tabulō

Related terms

• tabulāria
• tabulārium
• tabulātum

Descendants

• Bulgarian: табла (tábla)
• Catalan: taula
• Danish: tavle
• Dutch: tabel, tablet, tabula rasa, tafel
• English: table, tabula rasa
• French: table
• Friulian: taule
• Italian: tavola
• Occitan: taula

• Old Norse: tafl
• Portuguese: tábua, tábula
• Russian: та́бель (tábel'), табли́ца (tablíca)
• Sardinian: taba
• Serbo-Croatian: табла / tabla, тавла / tavla
• Sicilian: tàvula
• Spanish: tabla
• Turkish: tablo

References

• Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Brill, 2008, page 604

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Noun

tabula f, 4th declension

1. table (data arranged in rows and columns)

Declension

declension of tabula

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tabula	tabulas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tabulu	tabulas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tabulas	tabulu
dative (datīvs)	tabulai	tabulām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tabulu	tabulām
locative (lokatīvs)	tabulā	tabulās
vocative (vokatīvs)	tabula	tabulas

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Portuguese

Verb

tabula

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of tabular
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of tabular

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Spanish

Verb

tabula (infinitive tabular)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tabular.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tabular.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tabular.