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Borrowed from Latinabacus, abax(“sideboard or table with a slab at the top; slab at the top of a column; counting board, sand table; board for playing games”) (compare Late Latinabacus(“art of arithmetic”)), from Ancient Greekἄβαξ(ábax, “counting board; board covered with sand for drawing; plate; dice-board”).
From Latinabacus, abax(“sideboard or table with a slab at the top; slab at the top of a column; counting board, sand table; board for playing games”), from Ancient Greekἄβαξ(ábax, “counting board; board covered with sand for drawing; plate; dice-board”), possibly from a Semitic source, such as Phoenician-𐤀𐤁𐤀𐤒(-ʾbʾq) or Hebrewאָבָק(avák, “dust”).
(arithmetic)abacus(device used for performing arithmetical calculations; a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.)
(architecture)abacus(uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave; in some cases, a flat oblong or square slab, in others, more decorated)
Borrowed from Latinabacus, abax(“sideboard or table with a slab at the top; slab at the top of a column; counting board, sand table; board for playing games”)
“abakus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024