different between tablet vs tabula

English

Etymology

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?b?l?t, IPA^(key): /?tæbl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tablet (plural tablets)

1. A slab of clay used for inscription.
2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

   Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.

4. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
5. (computing) A graphics tablet.
6. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
7. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs.
8. (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

Derived terms

• wax tablet

Translations

See also

• caplet
• capsule

Verb

tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)

1. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

References

• “tablet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Battle, batlet, battel, battle

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French tablette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??bl?t/
• Hyphenation: ta?blet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)

1. tablet, pill (piece of medicine in solid state)
2. flat, rectangular piece or slab

Derived terms

• bruistablet
• kleitablet
• zuigtablet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tablet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.bl?t/
• Hyphenation: ta?blet

Noun

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. tablet computer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tabelett, tabelet, tabblet, tabulet, tabulette

Etymology

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tab(?)l?t(?)/, /?ta?b(?)l?t(?)/

Noun

tablet (plural tablettes)

1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
2. (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
3. A level surface for painting or working upon.
4. A piece of jewellery with a level portion present.
5. (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
6. (rare) A tablet or pill for medication.

Descendants

• English: tablet
• Scots: taiblet

References

• “tablet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

Polish

Etymology

From English tablet, from Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tab.l?t/

Noun

tablet m inan

1. (computing) digitizer, graphics tablet (small, easily swallowed portion of a substance)
2. (computing) tablet computer

Declension

Further reading

• tablet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tablet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English tablet.

Noun

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)

   Synonym: táblete

Further reading

• “tablet” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Noun

tablet m or f (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet

   Synonym: tableta

English

Etymology

From Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

Noun

tabula (plural tabulae or (archaic) tabulæ)

1. A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
2. A table, index, or list of data.
3. A legal record.
4. A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
5. A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
6. A Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
7. (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Related terms

• tabula rasa
• tabula ansata

Anagrams

• Butala, ablaut

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.by.la/
• Homophones: tabulas, tabulât

Verb

tabula

1. third-person singular past historic of tabuler

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bu.la/

Noun

tabula (plural tabulas)

1. table (item of furniture)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bu.la/
• Rhymes: -abula
• Hyphenation: tà?bu?la

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula. Doublet of tavola.

Noun

tabula f (plural tabulae)

1. (archaeology) tablet, slate

Related terms

References

• tabula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tabula

1. inflection of tabulare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• tabla (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *th?-d?lom, from *teh?- (“to stand”) (a variety of *steh?- without s-mobile, whence also Latin st?, st?re (“to stand”)) + *-d?lom (instrumental suffix) whence Latin -bula. The original meaning would then be “that which stands”, for which see also Latin stabulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta.bu.la/, [?t?äb???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.bu.la/, [?t???bul?]

Noun

tabula f (genitive tabulae); first declension

1. tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing
2. board or plank
3. (by extension) map, painting, document or other item put onto a tablet

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (map): charta, f?rma

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• tabula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tabula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tabula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 604

Latvian

Noun

tabula f (4th declension)

1. table (data arranged in rows and columns)

Declension

Phuthi

Verb

-tábúla

1. to yawn

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Verb

tabula

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of tabular
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of tabular

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?bula/, [t?a???u.la]

Verb

tabula

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tabular.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tabular.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tabular.