Etymograph

English

tabulate

Tabulate comes from Late Latin tabulātus ‘having a floor’.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtabulātus1‘having a floor’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1687tabulate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English tabulate
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1687, George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King James the Fifth, Parl. 5. [Act 52.]: “The order of Tabulating Summonds is now much alter'd,…”.

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEtabulātusWiktionary, English tabulate‘having a floor’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1687tabulateWiktionary, English tabulate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1687, George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King James the Fifth, Parl. 5. [Act 52.]: “The order of Tabulating Summonds is now much alter'd,…”

Formed from table + -ate

Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’

Latin tabula ‘tablet’

Old English tabele ‘board’

Middle English table ‘the top of a table’

English table

Every English word from Late Latin tabulātus

Another origin of tabulate

  1. mulmodernTabulata‘an extinct order of corals’
  2. Englishtodaytabulate

The order is so named because the corals are characterized by their well-developed horizontal internal partitions (tabulae).

Today it means

verb To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.

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

Etymograph / Late Latin tabulātus / tabulate

Shirt and support for this word