Translation
board, plank; blackboard
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Word origin
From Latin tabula ('plank, board, writing tablet'). Esperanto tablo comes from the same Latin word by a different route, through French table, which is why the two look like relatives and behave like strangers.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tabula
- English cognates
- table, tablet, tabulate
Examples
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The teacher wrote the words on the board.
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We made a bench out of five planks.
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The list of names is hanging on the board.
One root, two arrivals: is the flat piece of wood or the classroom board, while is the thing you eat at. Latin fathered both, but Esperanto took them in separately and they do not swap. A noticeboard is anonctabulo, a chessboard is ŝaktabulo, and the school one is simply .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 11: tabulo, sveni, imperio and 7 more words.