tablinum

[ ta-blahy-nuhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural tab·li·na [ta-, blahy, -n, uh].

(in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.

1820–30; < Latin tab ( u ) līnum, equivalent to tabula ( table ) + -īnum, neuter of -īnus -ine ¹

The height of the tablinum at the lintel should be one eighth more than its width.

On the centre of the side facing the vestibule was the tablinum, the apartment of Caius Muro himself.

If it is from thirty to forty feet, let half the width of the atrium be devoted to the tablinum.

This proposal pleased the old slave, and a short time after Gorgias entered the venerable philosopher's tablinum.

People took their meals in the veranda in summer, and to it the name tablinum was naturally applied.

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