Etymograph

English

tabula

Tabula comes from Latin tabula ‘board or plank’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *taðlā.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*taðlā‘board’reconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtabula‘board or plank’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1850same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*taðlā‘board’reconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtabula‘board or plank’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1850same form

Earliest quotation: 1850, Moses Margoliouth, A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers - Volume 1: “However, as Ugolinus is known as an industrious, honourable…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’

tablet, 15 more

through Latin tabula ‘board or plank’

table, tablature, 16 more

Today it means

noun A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *taðlā / tabula

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