contribuo

From con- +‎ tribuō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
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contribuō (present infinitive contribuere, perfect active contribuī, supine contribūtum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to put together, combine, join in one, unite

   Synonyms: committō, addō, adiciō, adalligō, colligō, applicō, illigō, implicō

2. (transitive) to attach (a township, state, ruler, etc.) for political or administrative purposes
   1. (in general) to allot, assign
3. (transitive) to bring in one's share; to contribute, give

   Synonym: intribuō

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

4. to incorporate, impart

   Synonym: participō

5. (Medieval Latin, intransitive, absolute, with ad, with in) to pay (a share), contribute
   • dicunt quod contribuere non debent, quia contributio fieret contra eum qui contraxit cum principe suo.

Unlike its Romance descendants or cōnferre, classically always transitive.

• “contribuō” on page 478 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• “contribuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contribuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contribuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

contribuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of contribuir