contabulatio Latin · revision 36535

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la tabula}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔn.ta.bʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.ta.buˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contabulātiō''' ''f'' (genitive contabulātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|contabulō|-tiō|t1=to cover with boards]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) a verb formed from [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|tabula|t=board, plank]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan finds the origin of the noun uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Caesar has it first,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) four times in one chapter of the ''Civil War'', for the plank [[m|en|flooring]] of a tower, which the builders covered with bricks and clay.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rare word;^(Lewis & Short 1879) the TLL equates it with [[contīgnātiō]], a floor or storey of joists.^(TLL) Vitruvius uses it of a boarded covering that protected what lay beneath, and Apuleius of the boarding of a stage.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Apuleius also transfers it to the folds of a garment.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) A 16th-century record from Cambridge uses it of wooden panelling.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the floors of a tower.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of a boarded covering.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of a stage and of the folds of a garment.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A floor or roof of boards, [[m|en|flooring]], [[m|en|planking]]; a storey.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transferred)'' The folds of a [[m|en|garment]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|panelling|alt=Panelling]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tabulātum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}