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entablature

Meaningboard-work, a flooring

Common meaning: the horizontal band laid across the tops of pillars

‘in, into’ + ‘a plank, a board’ → entablature

Journey through time

  • en — Latin in- “in, into; upon” (path traced)
  • tablature — Latin tabula “a plank, a board” (path traced)

Parts join in Latin as tabulatum.

  1. Latinin- + tabu‘in, into; upon + a plank, a board’source
  2. Latintabulatum‘board-work’source
  3. Late Latinintabularesource
  4. Old Frenchentablementsource
  5. Englishmeaning shiftsboard-work → the horizontal band laid across the tops of pillarsentablature‘the horizontal band laid across the tops of pillars’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin tabulatum, which Skeat (Concise Dictionary, 1911) analyses as in- ‘in, into; upon’ + tabu ‘a plank, a board’.

Roots

  • tabula Latin “a plank, a board”
  • tabulatum Latin “board-work, a flooring”

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