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English
Etymology
From tribute + -or.
Noun
tributor (plural tributors)
- (mining) A miner who was paid a percentage of the value of whatever ore he mined.
Latin
Etymology
From tribuō (“grant, bestow”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
tribūtor m (genitive tribūtōris); third declension
- a giver, imparter
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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.