table

table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses); flat surface atop various objects; flat part of a cut or carved object; table of a stringed instrument; matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns

“Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ?” — Why did you leave these books on the table?

Inherited from Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.