tabula rasa
See also: tábula rasa
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tabula rasa (usually uncountable, plural tabulae rasae or tabulæ rasæ)
- A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.; a "blank slate".
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 173:
- We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm and strengthen it.
- Anything which exists in a pristine state.
Translations edit
the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rāsa (literally “erased tablet”).
Noun edit
tabula rasa f (invariable)
- tabula rasa (all senses)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
tabula rasa m
- tabula rasa (all senses)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tabula rasa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tabula rasa f (indeclinable)
- (philosophy) tabula rasa (the idea that the mind comes into the world as a blank state)
Further reading edit
- tabula rasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tabula rasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish edit
Noun edit
tabula rasa f (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “tabula rasa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014