Where does “tributaryless” come from?
tributaryless (English) comes from English tributary, from Middle English tributarie, from Latin tribūtārius, from Latin tributum, from Latin tributus, from Latin tribuō, from Latin tribus, from Latin trēs.
tributaryless (English): Without tributaries
Definitions
- Without tributaries
Ancestry of “tributaryless”, step by step
tributaryless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English tributary
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tributary | A natural water stream that flows into a larger... |
| 2 | Middle English | tributarie | paying tribute |
| 3 | Latin | tribūtārius | tribute |
| 4 | Latin | tributum | tax, tribute; nominative neuter singular of... |
| 5 | Latin | tributus | bestowed; forming tribes; formed by tribes |
| 6 | Latin | tribuō | to grant, bestow, assign, attribute |
| 7 | Latin | tribus | One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,... |
| 8 | Latin | trēs | three; 3 |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |