contributio

Latin

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Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes

Proto-Indo-European *tri-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰ(h₁)-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *tridʰ(h₁)ús?

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Proto-Indo-European *tri-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *tribʰú(H)s?

Proto-Italic *triðus

Latin tribus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin tribuō

Latin contribūō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin contribūtiō

From contribūō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.trɪˈbuː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.triˈbut.t͡si.o]

Noun

contribūtiō f (genitive contribūtiōnis); third declension

1. payment, contribution
2. distribution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contribūtiō	contribūtiōnēs
genitive	contribūtiōnis	contribūtiōnum
dative	contribūtiōnī	contribūtiōnibus
accusative	contribūtiōnem	contribūtiōnēs
ablative	contribūtiōne	contribūtiōnibus
vocative	contribūtiō	contribūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: contribució
• Dalmatian: contributiaun
• French: contribution
• Galician: contribución
• Italian: contribuzione
• Occitan: contribucion
• Portuguese: contribuição
• Romanian: contribuție
• Russian: контрибу́ция (kontribúcija)
• Spanish: contribución
• Swedish: kontribution

References

• “contributio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contributio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.