tabulate

Meanings

Verb

• To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
• To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.
• To enter into an official register or roll.
• To shape with a flat surface.

Noun

• A pill, a tablet.
• A member of the order Tabulata.

Adjective

• Describing a member of an extinct order of corals, the Tabulata: having tabulae (well-developed horizontal internal partitions within each cell).

Related

Narrower meaning words

• cross-tabulate

Origin

• table + -ate; compare Late Latin tabulātus, perfect passive participle of tabulō + -ātus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos. Tabulō is derived from tabula, of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (a variant of *steh₂-) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom).
• Tabulata -ate. Tabulata is derived from Latin tabulāta, from tabulātum, from tabula + -tum (from -tus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tus ("suffix forming action nouns from verb roots")). See further at etymology 1. The order is so named because the corals are characterized by having tabula.