Etymograph

English

tablinum

Tablinum comes from Latin tablīnum ‘study, office, archives’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*taðlā‘board’reconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtabula‘writing tablet, records office’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtablīnum‘study, office, archives’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1715tablinum

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*taðlā‘board’reconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtabula‘writing tablet, records office’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtablīnum‘study, office, archives’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1715tablinum

Earliest quotation: 1715, Section II, Of Private Buildings: “(b) There was also a Pluteus (which we call…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’

tablet, 13 more

through Latin tabula ‘writing tablet, records office’

table, tabular, tabula, tablature, 14 more

Today it means

noun An anteroom in a house of ancient Rome, opening out of the atrium opposite the main entry and often containing the family statues and archives.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *taðlā / tablinum

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