contabulate

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verb

To lay floorboards.

OriginLatin contabulātus →
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Meanings

verbcontabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)

present singular third person contabulates · participle present contabulating · participle past contabulated · past contabulated

  1. To lay floorboards.

    For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.

    1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latincontabulātus
  2. Englishcontabulate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin contabulātus, perfect passive participle of contabulō (“to cover with boards”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contabulate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contabulate.

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