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.

Related terms

• tabula rasa

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tabulas, tabulât

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 insignata^W
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.

Synonyms

• (map): charta, fōrma

Derived terms

Related terms

• tabulāria
• tabulārium
• tabulātum

Descendants

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)

Declension

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 (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.