wax tablet

English

Noun

wax tablet (plural wax tablets)

1. A tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.

Translations

tablet covered with wax

• Armenian: մոմատախտակ (hy) (momataxtak)
• Finnish: vahataulu
• French: tablette de cire f
• German: Wachstafel
• Greek:

  Ancient: κήρα (kḗra)

• Hungarian: viasztábla (hu)
• Italian: tavoletta cerata
• Latin: cēra, tabula cerāta
• Old English: ǣstel m
• Polish: tabliczka woskowa f
• Russian: воскова́я табли́чка f (voskovája tablíčka)
• Spanish: tablilla de cera

Further reading

• wax tablet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia