Etymology

tableting

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Today it means: The manufacture of tablets by compacting a powder using a punch and die; used especially for pharmaceuticals Full definition →

English tablet ← Middle English tablet ← Old French tablete
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*taðlā
  2. Latintabula
  3. Old Frenchtable
  4. Old Frenchtablete
  5. Middle Englishtablet
  6. Englishtablet
  7. English todaytableting

From tablet + -ing.

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