tabularium Latin · revision 37011

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la tabula}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ta.bʊˈɫaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ta.buˈlaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tabulārium''' ''n'' (genitive tabulāriī or tabulārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tabula|-ārium|t1=board, writing tablet]], “a place for tablets”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the speech for Archias says that the records in question were lost when the record office burnt down (''incēnsō tabulāriō'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The usual sense was a record office or archive, the building where public records were kept: Virgil speaks of the people's archives (''populi tabulāria''),^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Livy tells of a ''tabulārium'' closed and its public slaves sent away,^(OLD 2012) and inscriptions name the ''tabulārium'' of the emperor.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses the word for a collection of tablets of bronze and iron.^(OLD 2012) In the law books it is an archive that also holds deeds of sale of slaves.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin Niermeyer records the senses “market stall, shop” and “notary's office”,^(Niermeyer 1976) and British sources from 1209 on use it for a board marked out for games such as draughts or backgammon.^(DMLBS) Italian has the learned [[m|it|tabulario]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of a record office burnt down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil names the people's archives.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy tells of the ''tabulārium'' being closed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a collection of tablets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * medieval – Niermeyer records the senses “shop” and “notary's office”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * 1209 – Royal accounts in England use it for a gaming board.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A collection of inscribed [[m|en|tablet|alt=tablets]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A record office, [[m|en|registry]], [[m|en|archive]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A market stall, shop; a [[m|en|notary|alt=notary's]] office.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A board for games such as [[m|en|draughts]] or [[m|en|backgammon]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tabulārius]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis & Short treat it as the neuter of the adjective [[tabularius|alt=tabulārius]] used as a noun; the masculine ''tabulārius'' was the keeper of the archives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}