tábula
Portuguese, noun
tábula is spelled T-Á-B-U-L-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 99,585th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tábula is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “tabula (a writing-tablet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tabula is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “O mesmo que mesa; prancha, tábua, távola”.
What does tábula mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininedining table
- 2
femininetabula (a writing-tablet)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. O mesmo que mesa; prancha, tábua, távola
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tábula
- tábulas plural
- távola alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tábula in Portuguese?
tábula appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).