contabulate

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English

Etymology

From Latin contabulō (I cover with boards).

Verb

contabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)

  1. To lay floorboards.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.

Latin

Verb

contabulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of contabulō