Etymograph

English

tablement

Tablement comes from Anglo-Norman tablement.

  1. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400tablement1
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tablement1‘a level portion of a building’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1603tablement1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English tablement
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1603, Plutarch, The Philosophie: “When we had fetched therefore a circuit about, we…”.

Lineage

  1. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400tablementWiktionary, English tablement
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tablementWiktionary, English tablement‘a level portion of a building’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1603tablementWiktionary, English tablement. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1603, Plutarch, The Philosophie: “When we had fetched therefore a circuit about, we…”

Formed from table + -ment

Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’

Latin tabula ‘tablet’

Old English tabele ‘board’

Middle English table ‘the top of a table’

English table

Every English word from Anglo-Norman tablement

Today it means

noun A table.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tablement”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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