Tablinum, tablíni, n. g. pen. prod. alis grammatophylacium dicitur. Plin. A place to keepe common registers, letters, and writings in. A winter parlour made of bourdes wherein were bookes of histories.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tablīnum, i, v. tabulinum. tablisso, āre, v. n., = tabli/zw,to play dice, acc. to Diom. pp. 417 and 421 P.
tăbŭlīnum (also contr. tăblīnum), i, n. [id.]. I.A balcony, terrace, or other floored place in the open air: (cenitabant) rure in corte, in urbe in tabulino, Varr. ap. Non. 83, 21.—II.A place where family records were kept, archives (for the usual tabularium), Vitr. 6, 4; 6, 8; Plin. 35, 2, 2, 7; cf. Fest. p. 356 Müll.; cf. Becker, Gallus, 2, p. 178 sq. — III.A picture-gallery, App. Flor. p. 364, 14.