tabella

tabella

English

Etymology

Latin tabella

Noun

tabella (plural tabellae)

1. A medicated lozenge or hard electuary.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: ta‧bèl‧la

Noun

tabella f (plural tabelle)

1. table (all senses)
2. board

Derived terms

Derived terms

• tabella a doppia entrata
• tabella cerata
• tabella dei prezzi
• tabella di conversione
• tabella di marcia

Anagrams

• ballate

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Latin

Etymology

From tabula (“table”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /taˈbel.la/, [t̪äˈbɛlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈbel.la/, [t̪äˈbɛlːä]

Noun

tabella f (genitive tabellae); first declension

1. Diminutive of tabula (“tablet, board, plank; document”):
   1. small board, tablet, or table (for writing)
   2. small piece of wood, board, plank, tray, trough
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.408:

        heu quantum fātī parva tabella tulit!

        Alas, what a weight of destiny a little piece of wood carried!
        (Twin babes Romulus and Remus, having been abandoned, float upon the Tiber.)

   3. plaque, placard, signboard
   4. letter, contract (or similar written document)
   5. ballot, suffrage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tabella	tabellae
Genitive	tabellae	tabellārum
Dative	tabellae	tabellīs
Accusative	tabellam	tabellās
Ablative	tabellā	tabellīs
Vocative	tabella	tabellae

Derived terms

• tabellio

Descendants

• Catalan: tavella
• Welsh: tafell

References

• “tabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tabella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “tabella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tabella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tabella.

Noun

tabella f (plural tabelli)

1. table

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Portuguese

Noun

tabella f (plural tabellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of tabela