Round Table

See also: round table and roundtable

English

A 1470 reproduction of Évrard d’Espinques’s illumination of the Prose Lancelot, showing King Arthur presiding at the Round Table with his Knights

Etymology

From Middle English rounde table, table rounde, a calque of Old French table rounde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹaʊnd ˈteɪbəl/

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Proper noun

the Round Table

1. (Arthurian legend) King Arthur's table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate, all having equal status since the table has no head.
   • 1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 21:

     Then, after a while, King Arthur said: "Let us go and see if, haply, this youth's name is marked upon any of the seats of the Round Table, for I think it should be there."

Translations

King Arthur's table

• Armenian: Կլոր սեղան (Klor seġan)
• Basque: Mahai Biribila
• Breton: an Daol Grenn f
• Bulgarian: кръгла маса f (krăgla masa)
• Catalan: Taula Rodona f
• Danish: det runde bord n
• Dutch: de ronde tafel f
• Esperanto: Ronda Tablo
• French: Table ronde f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Rûne Tafe

• Galician: Táboa Redonda f
• German: Tafelrunde (de) f
• Greek: Στρογγυλή Τράπεζα f (Strongylí Trápeza)
• Hebrew: השולחן העגול m (hashulkhán hagil)
• Hungarian: kerekasztal (hu)
• Ido: ronda tablo
• Indonesian: Meja Bundar
• Italian: Tavola Rotonda f
• Korean: 원탁 (ko) (wontak)
• Latin: Mēnsa Rotunda f
• Norman: Rounde Table f
• Norwegian: det runde bord n
• Occitan: Taula Redonda f
• Polish: Okrągły Stół m
• Portuguese: Távola Redonda f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: округли стол m

  Latin: okrugli stol m

• Slovene: okrogla miza f
• Spanish: Mesa Redonda f, Tabla Redonda f
• Swedish: det runda bordet n
• Tagalog: Mesang Bilog
• Ukrainian: кру́глий стіл m (krúhlyj stil)
• Welsh: y Ford Gron f