French from Provençal cadastrofrom Italian catastroalteration of Old Italian catasticofrom Late Greek katastikhonregister Greek kata-bycata– Greek stikhoslinesteigh- in Indo-European roots
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Establishing a mining cadastre unit is a vital step in providing a favorable climate for investment.
The tables have never been published, and are generally known as the Tables du Cadastre, or, in England, as the great French manuscript tables.
Babbage compared his table with the Tables du Cadastre, and Lefort has given in his paper just referred to most important lists of errors in Vlacq's and Briggs's logarithms of numbers which were obtained by comparing the manuscript tables with those contained in the Arithmetica logarithmica of 1624 and of 1628.
As the Tables du Cadastre remained unpublished, other tables appeared in which the quadrant was divided centesimally, the most important of these being Hobert and Ideler's Nouvelles tables trigonometriques (1799), and Borda and Delambre's Tables trigonometriques decimates (1800-1801), both of which are seven-figure tables.
The latter work, which was much used, being difficult to procure, and greater accuracy being required, the French government in 1891 published an eight-figure centesimal table, for every ten seconds, derived from the Tables du Cadastre.