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tabula.

writing tablet (wax covered board); records (pl.); document, deed, will; list; plank/board, flat piece of wood; door panel; counting/playing/notice board; |picture, painting; wood panel for painting; metal/stone tablet/panel w/text;

6 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈta.bʊ.ɫa]Classical-Latin[ˈtaː.bu.la]
  1. tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing

    declension-1 · feminine
  2. board or plank

    declension-1 · feminine
  3. map, painting, document or other item put onto a tablet

    broadly · declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Italic *taðlā, with pre-form something like *th₂-dʰlo-, of uncertain origin. * Some connect it with taberna; * Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *tal-dʰleh₂, from *telh₂- (“flat”); * Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *th₂-dʰleh₂, from *(s)teh₂- (“to stand”) (a variety of *steh₂- without s-mobile, whence also Latin stō, stāre (“to stand”)) + *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix) whence Latin -bula. The original meaning would then be “that which stands”, for which see also Latin stabulum.

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