tabula
板
解説 Definition
ラテン語で「板・表」を意味する語。「tabula rasa（白紙状態）」の表現で知られる。
Tabula is a Latin word meaning a board, writing tablet, or table. In English it occurs chiefly in the phrase tabula rasa, which describes a blank state without prior ideas, records, or determining influences.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
tabula はラテン語で、文字を書く平らな「板・書字板」を表す。英語の table や tablet と同じ語源につなげると、平らな板から「表・一覧」へ意味が広がった流れを覚えやすい。英語では単独使用より tabula rasa「何も書かれていない板、白紙状態」という定型句で出会うことが多い。
Connect tabula with the familiar English words table and tablet. All evoke something flat: originally, a tabula was a board or a surface on which information could be written. From that physical image, it also developed the sense of a table or organized list. In modern English, the most useful expression is tabula rasa, literally an erased or blank writing surface and figuratively a mind or situation not yet shaped by previous content. Picture a clean tablet ready for writing whenever you meet the phrase.
例文
The philosopher argued that every child is born as a tabula rasa.
その哲学者はすべての子どもはタブラ・ラサ（白紙状態）として生まれると主張した。
Locke's concept of tabula rasa challenged the idea of innate knowledge.
ロックのタブラ・ラサの概念は生得的知識という考え方に異議を唱えた。
After the reforms, the organization treated itself as a tabula rasa and started fresh.
改革後、その組織は自らを白紙状態とみなし、新たに出発した。
tabula の類義語・関連語
tabula の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 tabula（板、書字板）がそのまま英語に入った語。英語 table（テーブル）や tablet（書字板→タブレット）の直接の語源で、元は文字を書くための平らな板を指した。「板の上に書く」から「表・一覧表」の意味も派生した。
English tabula is a direct borrowing of Latin tabula, meaning a board, plank, writing tablet, or written table. The Latin noun is also the historical source of English table and is closely represented in tablet, which came through a diminutive form. The extension from a flat writing board to an arranged list explains the modern sense of table. In tabula rasa, the accompanying Latin adjective rasa means scraped or erased, producing the image of a cleared writing tablet.
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