tabella

English

Etymology

Latin tabella

Noun

tabella (plural tabellae)

1. A medicated lozenge or hard electuary.

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

Further reading

• tabella in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams

• ballate

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /taˈbel.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈbel.la/,

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.

Derived terms

• tabellio

Descendants

• Catalan: tavella
• Welsh: tafell
• → Koine Greek: ταβέλλα (tabélla)

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

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tabella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɛl.la/

Noun

tabella f (plural tabelli)

1. table (grid of data in rows and columns)
2. signboard

Portuguese

Noun

tabella f (plural tabellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of tabela