The corpus record — Latin

tabulinum

tabulinum · n

A balcony

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

tăbŭlīnum — Lewis & Short

tăbŭlīnum (also contr. tăblīnum), i, n.id..

I A balcony, terrace, or other floored place in the open air: (cenitabant) rure in corte, in urbe in tabulino, Varr. ap. Non. 83, 21.—

II A place where family records were kept, archives (for the usual tabularium), Vitr. 6, 4; 6, 8; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 7; cf. Fest. p. 356 Müll.; cf. Becker, Gallus, 2, p. 178 sq. —

III A picture-gallery, App. Flor. p. 364, 14.

In the wild

tabulina Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.5.1
tabulina Apuleius, Florida 23
tabulina Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.2.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.