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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun form of the neuter of tribūtus.
Noun
tribūtum n (genitive tribūtī); second declension
- tax, tribute
- Synonym: stīpendium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inflected form of tribūtus.
Adjective
tribūtum
- inflection of tribūtus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “tributum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tributum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tributum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pay taxes: vectigalia, tributa pendere
- exempt from taxation: immunis (tributorum) (Verr. 5. 21. 51)
- to impose tribute on some one: vectigalia, tributa alicui imponere
- to be crushed by numerous imposts: tributorum multitudine premi
- “tributum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers