different between transverse vs tabula

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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.