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Latin
Etymology
ad- (“to or toward”) + tribuō (“I grant or bestow”)
Pronunciation
Verb
attribuō (present infinitive attribuere, perfect active attribuī, supine attribūtum); third conjugation
- to associate
- to add or join to
- to annex
- to assign, bestow, appoint
- Synonyms: dēlēgō, dēsignō, assignō, dēmandō, tribuō, īnstituō, impertiō, elēgō, lēgō, mandō, appōnō, prōdō, cōnsociō, ōrdinō, distribuō, discrībō, largior, addīcō
- to allot
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References
- “attrĭbŭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “attribuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ATTRIBUERE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- adtrĭbŭo (att-) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “64”
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to attribute the fault to some one: culpam alicui attribuere, assignare
- “attribuō” on pages 203–204 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)