Where does “tables” come from?
tables (Middle English) comes from Middle English table, from Old French table, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā.
tables (Middle English): plural of table
Ancestry of “tables”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | table | A table; A level writing surface; Any level... |
| 2 | Old French | table | table |
| 3 | Latin | tabula | tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *taðlā | — |