tributor

tributor

English

Etymology

From tribute +‎ -or.

Noun

tributor (plural tributors)

  1. (mining) A miner who was paid a percentage of the value of whatever ore he mined.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin tribus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tribuō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin tribūtor

    From tribuō (“grant, bestow”) + -tor.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tribūtor m (genitive tribūtōris); third declension

    1. a giver, imparter

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative tribūtor tribūtōrēs
    genitive tribūtōris tribūtōrum
    dative tribūtōrī tribūtōribus
    accusative tribūtōrem tribūtōrēs
    ablative tribūtōre tribūtōribus
    vocative tribūtor tribūtōrēs

    References

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