Where does “distribute” come from?
Distribute comes from Latin distribuere, composed of the prefix dis- and tribus meaning tribe, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European tréyes meaning three.
distribute (English): To divide into portions and dispense; To supply...
Definitions
- To divide into portions and dispense; To supply...
Ancestry of “distribute”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | distribūtus | divided, distributed |
| 2 | Latin | distribuere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | tribuere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | tribuo | I grant, bestow; I yield, give up, concede, allow |
| 5 | Latin | tribus | One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,... |
| 6 | Latin | trēs | three; 3 |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |
Words derived from “distribute”
- distributor
- redistribute
- distributable
- distributee
- distributary
- distributorship
- distributer
- redistributor
- distributism
- distributeth
- interdistributary
- distributist
- distributest
- codistribute
- overdistribute
- equidistribute
- misdistribute
- interdistribute
- self-distribute
- underdistribute
- microdistributor
- дистрибьютер
- дистрибьютор
- e-distributor