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Tabula


Tab′u-la

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Noun.
;
pl.
Tabulae
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[L.]
1.
A table; a tablet.
2.
(Zool.)
One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Tabula rasa
[L.]
,
a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; – a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

Definition 2024


tabula

tabula

See also: tabulá and tabulā

English

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.

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

tabula

  1. third-person singular past historic of tabuler

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.bu.la/

Noun

tabula (plural tabulas)

  1. (item of furniture) table

Italian

Verb

tabula

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

Latin

Tabula Franciae cum flumine Ligere insignataW
Map of France with river Loire

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *th₂-dʰlom, from *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.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈta.bu.la/, IPA(key): [ˈta.bʊ.la]

Noun

tabula f (genitive tabulae); 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

First declension.

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

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References

  • tabula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tabula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • TABULA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tabula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • statues and pictures: signa et tabulae (pictae)
    • account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    • to book a debt: nomina facere or in tabulas referre
    • to enter a thing in the public records: in tabulas publicas referre aliquid
    • to accuse a person of forging the archives: accusare aliquem falsarum tabularum
    • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 604

Latvian

Noun

tabula f (4th declension)

  1. table (data arranged in rows and columns)

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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

Spanish

Verb

tabula

  1. Informal second-person singular () 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.