Where does “tributar” come from?
tributar (Romanian) comes from French tributaire, from French tribut, from Latin tributum, from Latin tributus, from Latin tribuō, from Latin tribus, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs.
tributar (Romanian): tributary
Definitions
- tributary
Ancestry of “tributar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tributaire | tributary |
| 2 | French | tribut | tribute |
| 3 | Latin | tributum | tax, tribute; nominative neuter singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | tributus | bestowed; forming tribes; formed by tribes |
| 5 | Latin | tribuō | to grant, bestow, assign, attribute |
| 6 | Latin | tribus | One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,... |
| 7 | Latin | trēs | three; 3 |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |