Tabula

Quick meaning: Tabula is a noun meaning A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

Meaning

A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

A.D. Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.

The front side has a raised border; it is decorated with a tabula between two shields.

Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand. Titles and initials throughout in red and blue.

The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.

Word Forms

• tabulae

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tablet, nameplate, tablature, plate, plaquette, tombstone.

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