Lewis Short
(adjective) : tăbellārĭus, a, um, tabella
* Of or belonging to tablets, i. e.
* (Acc. to tabella, II.A.) Of or pertaining to writing or to letters.
* Adj.: naves,vessels to carry letters, packet-boats,Sen. Ep. 77, 1. — Hence
* (Acc. to tabella, II. B.) Of or relating to voting-tablets: lex, regulating voting: sunt enim quattuor leges tabellariae, quarum prima de magistratibus mandandis, ea est tabellaria Gabinia, etc.,Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 35; id. Sest. 48, 103; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary