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entablature

Meaningboard-work, a flooring

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

Journey through time

  1. Latintabulatum‘board-work’source
  2. Late Latinintabularesource
  3. Old Frenchentablementsource
  4. 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 ‘board-work, a flooring’.

Roots

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