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Tabula
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Tab′u-la
,Noun.
pl.
Tabulae
(#)
. [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 2025
tabula
tabula
English
Noun
tabula (plural tabulae)
- A table or tablet.
- (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
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Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈta.bu.la/
Noun
tabula (plural tabulas)
- (item of furniture) table
Italian
Verb
tabula
Latin

Tabula Franciae cum flumine Ligere insignataW
Map of France with river Loire
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
- tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing
- board or plank
- (by extension) map, painting, document or other item put onto a tablet
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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!
- statues and pictures: signa et tabulae (pictae)
- 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)
- table (data arranged in rows and columns)
Declension
Declension of tabula (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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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 |