tabula rasa

From Latin tabula (“tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased”).

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tabula rasa (usually uncountable, plural tabulae rasae or tabulæ rasæ)

1. (uncountable) The idea that the mind comes into this world as a "blank slate".
2. (countable) Anything which exists in a pristine state.
   • 1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 47–48:

     In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.

From Latin tabula (“tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased”).

tabula rasa f (invariable)

1. tabula rasa (all senses)

1. tabula rasa (all senses)

tabula rasa f (uncountable)

1. tabula rasa