Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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. (uncountable, historical) An ancient 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

The date is written above the tabula and down the right side, which is worn; the main text is written within the tabula, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.

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

The lower profile is finished from the first niche (N1) up to the second tabula (T2), but to the west of T2, at O10, only its astragal is complete.

It was worked separately from its foot but with its tabula which is decorated with a square, four-petaled rosette in relief.

... part of an ecclesiastical complex which included, to the south-east, a larger church which we called the Church of the Tabula Ansata after an inscription framed in a tabula incised on a gypsum slab in the paved floor of the presbyterium.

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

Word Forms

• tabulae
• tabulæ

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