contabulate

Latin contabulō (“I cover with boards”)

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

1. To lay floorboards.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

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

• contabulation

contabulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contabulō