noun · femininefirst declension
tabella
tabella f (genitive tabellae)
Classical[taˈbɛl.la]Ecclesiastical[taˈbɛl.la]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- femininesmall board, tablet, or table (for writing)
- femininesmall piece of wood, board, plank, tray, trough
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.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.408 - feminineplaque, placard, signboard
- feminineletter, contract (or similar written document)
- feminineballot, suffrage
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
parva tabula cērā tēcta, in quā puerī scrībunt.tabella -ae f — in Mille Verba, Artēs et Litterae
tabulae cērā opertaetabellae -ārum (f) — in Epistulae, ch. 1
lignum parvum, in quō verba scrībunturtabella -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 17
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tabella | tabellae |
| genitive | tabellae | tabellārum |
| dative | tabellae | tabellīs |
| accusative | tabellam | tabellās |
| ablative | tabellā | tabellīs |
| vocative | tabella | tabellae |
tăbella, ae (
I. nom. plur. TABELAI, S. C. de Bacch. Corp. I. R. 196). f. dim. tabula.
I. In gen., a small board, a little table or tablet (rare and mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
liminis, i. e. the door-sill, Cat. 32, 5: tabella aerea, a brass plate, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 19: hos (libellos) eme, quos artat brevibus membrana tabellis, little tablets, i. e. small pages, Mart. 1, 3, 3: parva tabella capit ternos utrimque lapillos, small gamingboards, Ov. A. A. 3, 365; id. Tr. 2. 481: pistor multiplices struit tabellas, i. e. thin cakes, Mart. 11, 31, 9.—Of the basket or cradle in which Romulus and Remus were exposed: heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit, the little bark, Ov. F. 2, 408.—II. In partic. (class.).
A. A writing-tablet:
tabellis pro chartis utebantur antiqui, quibus ultro citro, sive privatim sive publice opus erat, certiores absentes faciebant, unde adhuc tabellarii dicuntur: et tabellae missae ab imperatoribus, Fest. p. 359 Müll.: tabellae Imponere manus, Ov. P. 4, 2, 27: abiegnae, id. A. A. 3, 469: litteras tabellae insculpere, Quint. 1, 1, 27: fecit et Libyn puerum tenentem tabellam, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 59.—2. Hence, transf., in plur., a writing, written composition, letter, contract, will, etc.:
tabellas proferri jussimus ... Recitatae sunt tabellae in eandem fere sententiam, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10: allatae sunt tabellae ad eam a Stratippocle, eum argentum sumpsisse, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 68: ex tabellis jam faxo scies, id. Ps. 1, 1, 47: tabellas consignare, id. Curc. 2, 3, 86: tu quidem tabellis obsignatis agis mecum, with sealed writings, Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33: publicae Heracleensium, public records, id. Arch. 4, 9; cf. Liv. 43, 16, 13: tabellae quaestionis plures proferuntur, minutes of evidence, Cic. Clu. 65, 184: cur totiens video mitti recipique tabellas? Ov. Am. 3, 14, 31: rasae, id. A. A. 1, 437: nuptiis tabellas dotis ipse consignavit, the marriage contract, Suet. Claud. 29: falsas signare tabellas, forged wills, Juv. 8, 142: laureatae, a letter announcing a victory, Liv. 45, 1, 8.—Sing. (rare): testimonium per tabellam dare, in writing, Tac. Or. 36: ex tabellā pronuntiare sententiam, Suet. Claud. 15.—B. A tablet for voting, a ballot.
1. In the comitia, used in electing a magistrate or deciding upon the acceptance of a proposed law: in the former case the elector wrote down the name of a candidate; in the latter, each voter received two tablets, on one of which were the letters U. R., i. e. uti rogas, denoting approval;
on the other, A., i. e. antiquo (for the old law), denoting rejection: me universa civitas non prius tabellā quam voce priorem consulem declaravit, Cic. Pis. 1, 3: an ego exspectem, dum de te quinque et septuaginta tabellae dirimantur? id. ib. 40, 96: tabella modo detur nobis, sicut populo data est, id. Phil. 11, 8, 19; cf.: si populo grata est tabella, quae frontis aperit hominum, id. Planc. 6, 16. — 2. In courts of justice; here each judge usually received three tablets; one of which, inscribed A., i. e. absolvo, denoted acquittal; another, with C., i. e. condemno, written on it, denoted condemnation;
and the third, with N. L., i. e. non liquet (it is not clear), left the case undecided: cum tabella vobis dabitur, judices, non de Flacco dabitur solum: dabitur de bonis omnibus, Cic. Fl. 39, 99: huic judicialis tabella committetur? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 79: de quibusdam etiam imperitus judex dimittere tabellam potest, give his vote, Sen. Ben. 3, 7, 5: quamlibet austeras de me ferat urna tabellas, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 49. Caes. B. C. 3, 83; cf. Suet. Aug. 33. — C. A painted tablet, a small picture or painting:
ea (exhedria) volebam tabellis ornare, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3: priscis sparsa tabellis Porticus, Ov. A. A. 1, 71: inveniat plures nulla tabella modos, id. ib. 2, 680: comicae tabellae, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 114; cf.: cubicula tabellis adornavit, Suet. Tib. 43: Tyrrhena sigilla, tabellas, Sunt qui non habeant, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 180: Pausiaca, id. S. 2, 7, 95.—D. A votive tablet, hung up in a temple, and on which one acknowledged by writing or painting the favor or aid he had received from a deity:
nunc, dea, nunc succurre mihi, nam posse mederi, Picta docet templis multa tabella tuis, Tib. 1, 3, 28: et posita est meritae multa tabella deae, Ov. F. 3, 268: votiva, Hor. S. 2, 1, 33; so Juv. 12, 27: memores, Ov. M. 8, 744. — E. A fan:
quos (ventos) faciet nostrā mota tabella manu, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 38.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tabella ae, f dim.
tabula, a small board : ternis instructa lapillis, i. e. gaming-board , O.: Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit, frail plank (i. e. bark ), O.: liminis, the door-sill , Ct.— A fan : quos (ventos) faciet nostrā mota tabella manu, O. — A little picture, small painting : ea (exedria) tabellis ornare: priscis sparsa tabellis Porticus, O.— A waxed tablet for writing, writing-tablet : tabellae Imponere manūs, O.: abiegnae, O.—In the comitia, a ballot, polling-ticket, vote : cerata tabella cerā legitimā, i. e. with wax of uniform color (to protect secrecy): tabellā consulem declarare, i. e. by ballot : tabella modo detur nobis, sicut populo data est.—In a court of justice, a judge's ballot, juror's tablet, vote (inscribed with letters indicating his judgment or verdict, as C for condemno; A for absolvo; NL for non liquet): iudicialis: ternas tabellas dari ad iudicandum iis, etc., Cs.— A votive tablet, memorial tablet : votiva, H.: memores, O.—Plur, a writing, written composition, letter, epistle : tabellae laureatae, a despatch reporting a victory , L.: Cur totiens video mitti recipique tabellas? O.: tabellas proferri iussimus.— A document, contract, deed, record : Heracliensium publicae, public records : tabellae quaestionis, minutes of the examination : falsae forged wills , Iu.: tabellis obsignatis agis mecum, i. e. you hold me strictly to what I have said .
Origins
- Proto-Italic*taðlā
- Latintabella
Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -la Latin tabella From tabula (“table”) + -la (diminutive suffix).
Elsewhere
- Englishtabella
- GermanTabelle
- Italiantabella
- Portuguesetabela
- Romaniantabelă
- Indonesiantabelfrom German Tabelle
- Polishtabelafrom German Tabelle
- Lower Sorbiantabelafrom German Tabelle
- Maltesetabellafrom Italian tabella
- Turkishtabellafrom Italian tabella
Italo-Romance
- Italiantavella
Gallo-Romance
- Catalantavella
- Aragonesetabiella
- Aragonesetabella