Where does “tribunal” come from?

tribunal (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Latin tribunal, from Latin tribus, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tribunal (Serbo-Croatian): tribunal

Definitions

  1. tribunal

Ancestry of “tribunal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintribunala raised semicircular or square platform, on...
2LatintribusOne of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,...
3Latintrēsthree; 3
4Proto-Italictrēsthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →