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- Latin · borrowed fromtabula rāsa
- English todaytabula rasa
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally “erased tablet”), where the collocation comprised tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”, noun) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”, participial adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.