tribut

See also: Tribut and tribüt

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tribūtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central, Northwestern) [tɾiˈβut]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾiˈbut]

Noun

tribut m (plural tributs)

1. tribute

Related terms

• tributari

Further reading

• “tribut”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tribut”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “tribut” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tribut”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Czech

Alternative forms

• tributum

Etymology

Etymology tree

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 tribusder.

Czech tribut

Derived from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪbut]

Noun

tribut m inan

1. tribute (payment made by one nation to another in submission)

Declension

Declension of tribut (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	tribut	tributy
genitive	tributu	tributů
dative	tributu	tributům
accusative	tribut	tributy
vocative	tribute	tributy
locative	tributu	tributech
instrumental	tributem	tributy

Related terms

Related terms

• atribuce
• atribuovat
• atribut
• atributivní
• distribuce
• distribuovat
• distributivní
• distributor
• kontribuce
• retribuce
• retributivní
• tribální
• tribalismus
• tribun
• tribuna
• tribunál

Further reading

• “tribut”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tribut”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tribut”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

French

Etymology

From Middle French tribut (15th c.), learned alteration of Old French treü (12th c.), itself either inherited or early borrowed from Latin tribūtus. Forms such as trebu (14th c.) show that the relatinization was a gradual process.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.by/

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• Homophones: tribu, tribus, tributs

Noun

tribut m (plural tributs)

1. (historical) tribute (payment made from one state to another as a sign of submission)
2. (figurative) tribute (acknowledgement of gratitude)

Derived terms

• tributaire

Further reading

• “tribut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɪˈbuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

tribut m (plural tributi)

1. attribution

   Synonym: attribuzzjoni

Related terms

• attribut
• attributtiv
• attribuzzjoni
• attribwibbli
• attribwixxa

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

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 tribūtus

Latin tributum

French tributbor.

Romanian tribut

Borrowed from French tribut, from Latin tributum.

Noun

tribut n (plural tributuri)

1. tribute

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tribut	tributul	tributuri	tributurile
genitive-dative	tribut	tributului	tributuri	tributurilor
vocative	tributule		tributurilor