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Where does “distribuere” come from?

distribuere (Latin) comes from Latin tribuere, from Latin tribuo, from Latin tribus, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

distribuere (Latin): third-person plural perfect active indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of...

Ancestry of “distribuere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintribuerethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
2LatintribuoI grant, bestow; I yield, give up, concede, allow
3LatintribusOne of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,...
4Latintrēs—
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “distribuere”

  • distribute
  • distributor
  • redistribute
  • distributable
  • distributee
  • distributary
  • distributorship
  • distributer
  • redistributor
  • distributism
  • distributeth
  • interdistributary
  • distributist
  • distributest
  • codistribute
  • overdistribute
  • equidistribute
  • misdistribute
  • e-distributor
  • microdistributor
  • distributus
  • distribute
  • distribuir
  • дистрибьютер
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