spreadsheet

English

Etymology

From spread +‎ sheet. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When was the term first used?”)

Noun

spreadsheet (plural spreadsheets)

1. (dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
2. (computing) A computer simulation of such a system of recording tabular data, with totals and other formulas calculated automatically.

Translations

sheet of paper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: laskentataulukko
• French: tableur (fr) m
• German: Kalkulationstabelle f
• Japanese: 方眼紙 (ほうがんし, hōganshi)

• Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)
• Maori: ripanga, ripakaute
• Portuguese: planilha (pt) f
• Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
• Russian: табли́ца (ru) f (tablíca)
• Swedish: kalkylark n

computer simulation

• Azerbaijani: elektron cədvəl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試算表 (zh), 试算表 (zh) (shìsuànbiǎo), 電子表格, 电子表格 (diànzǐ biǎogé)

• Czech: tabulkový procesor m
• Esperanto: kalkultabelo
• Finnish: laskentataulukko
• French: tableur (fr)
• German: Tabellenkalkulation (de) f, Kalkulationstabelle f
• Greek: λογιστικό φύλλο n (logistikó fýllo), υπολογιστικό φύλλο n (ypologistikó fýllo)
• Indonesian: lembar kerja, lembar bentang, lembar kalkulasi, lembatang sebar
• Irish: scarbhileog f
• Italian: foglio di calcolo m
• Japanese: 表計算ソフト (hyōkeisan sofuto), スプレッドシート (supureddoshīto), スプレッド (ja) (supureddo)
• Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)

• Maori: ripanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regneark n

• Polish: arkusz kalkulacyjny (pl) m
• Portuguese: planilha (pt) f, folha de cálculo f
• Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
• Russian: электро́нная табли́ца f (elektrónnaja tablíca)
• Serbo-Croatian: proračunska tablica f, unakrsna tabela f
• Spanish: hoja de cálculo f
• Swedish: kalkylark n, tabelldokument n
• Turkish: elektronik tablo
• Turkmen: elektron tablisa
• Walloon: tåvleu (wa) m
• Welsh: taenlen f

Verb

spreadsheet (third-person singular simple present spreadsheets, present participle spreadsheeting, simple past and past participle spreadsheeted)

1. (transitive) To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.

See also

• layout