English
tableting
From tablet + -ing.
A compound of tablet + -ing
Proto-Italic *taðlā ‘board’
Latin tabula ‘tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax…’
Old French table
Old French tablete ‘small table’
Middle English tablet ‘a tablet, especially an easily carried one…’
English tablet
Today it means
noun The manufacture of tablets by compacting a powder using a punch and die; used especially for pharmaceuticals
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “tableting”. 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.
Etymograph / tableting