Where does “tablet” come from?

tablet (Middle English) comes from Old French tablete, from Old French -eté, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

tablet (Middle English): A tablet, especially an easily carried one for...

Definitions

  1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for...

Ancestry of “tablet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtabletesmall table; a board to be written on; tablet
2Old French-etévariant of -té
3Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
4Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “tablet

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós