Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. · To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. · To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. · To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.
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