tablinum

[ ta-blahy-nuh m ]

/ tæˈblaɪ nəm /

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

Origin of tablinum

1820–30; < Latin tab(u)līnum, equivalent to tabula (see table) + -īnum, neuter of -īnus -ine¹

On the right-hand wall of the tablinum is a picture of Bacchus discovering Ariadne.

Museum of Antiquity |L. W. Yaggy
If it is from thirty to forty feet, let half the width of the atrium be devoted to the tablinum.

Ten Books on Architecture |Vitruvius
The tablinum becomes an apse; the court, roofed over, becomes the nave; the side wings of the peristyle become the aisles.

Pagan and Christian Rome |Rodolfo Lanciani
He crossed the apartment, and stood at the entrance to the tablinum.

Beric the Briton |G. A. Henty

She hastened her steps as she saw Beric standing before her father in the tablinum.

Beric the Briton |G. A. Henty