contabulate

English

Etymology

From Latin contabulō (“I cover with boards”).

Verb

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

1. To lay floorboards.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

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

Related terms

• contabulation

Latin

Verb

contabulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contabulō