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Translingual
Etymology
From Latin tribus (“tribe”).
Noun
tribus
- (taxonomy) The taxon tribe
English
Etymology
From Latin tribus. Doublet of tribe.
Noun
tribus (plural tribus or tribuses)
- (taxonomy) Synonym of tribe
1963, Proceedings of the International Congress of Zoology, page 207:The entire Tenebrionid fauna of this region is constituted by genera or tribuses whose present area of distribution is of the pattern called by Mayr "pan tropical" and by Vandel "gondwanian".
1965, A Revision of the West African Eilemic Moths, Based on the Male Genitalia, page 9:It might therefore be justified to separate them from the remaining genera of the subfamily Lithosinae as a tribus with two subtribus, or as two tribus.
1990, C Bas, “Tricholomataceae R.Heim ex Pouz”, in Flora Agaricina Neerlandica: Critical monographs on families of agarics and boleti occurring in the Netherlands, volume 2, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 66:In this Flora distinctly sarcodimitic species are allowed in two tribus, viz. Xeruleae and Myceneae.
Catalan
Noun
tribus
- plural of tribu
Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tribus
- (taxonomy) tribe
Declension
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
Noun
tribus f
- plural of tribu
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A compound from the stem of trēs (“three”) and either from:[1][2]
- Proto-Italic *triðus if from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”), thus Proto-Indo-European *tri-dʰh₁o- (“rendered in three, tripartite”), cf. with Skt. multiplicatives in -dhā such as Sanskrit त्रिधा (tridhā, “threefold”), and with thematized derivatives of it such as Lithuanian iñdas (“dishware”) < *-dʰh₁o-. This would be evidence to the development of PIt. *þ before vocalic *u as after it;
- Proto-Italic *triβus if from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, become, come into being, appear”).
Originally referring to three divisions of the (Roman) people. Cognate to Umbrian trifu (“tribe, people”).
Noun
tribus f (genitive tribūs); fourth declension
- One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes, Tities, Luceres.
- A division of the Roman people.
- A tribe.
- Synonyms: gēns, prōgeniēs
- The mob, the lower classes.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
*This noun is irregular in the dative plural and the ablative plural.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Weiss, Michael (2010) Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy: The Ritual Complex of the Third and the Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae (Brill's Studies in Indo-Europe), Brill, →ISBN, pages 192-200
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tribus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 629
Further reading
- “tribus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tribus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tribus 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)
- tribus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
- to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49)
- to expel some one from his tribe: tribu movere aliquem
- (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
- “tribus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tribus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “tribus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1090
Etymology 2
Inflected form of trēs (“three”)
Numeral
tribus
- dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter of trēs
Middle English
Noun
tribus
- plural of tribe
Old Spanish
Noun
tribus m or f pl
- plural of tribu
Spanish
Noun
tribus f pl
- plural of tribu