contribuo
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈtri.bu.oː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪rɪbuoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈtri.bu.o/, [kon̪ˈt̪riːbuo]
Verb
contribuō (present infinitive contribuere, perfect active contribuī, supine contribūtum); third conjugation
- (transitive) I put together, combine, join in one, unite
- (transitive) I attach (a township, state, ruler, etc.) for political or administrative purposes
- (in general) I allot, assign
- (transitive) I bring in my share; I contribute, give
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- (Medieval Latin, intransitive, absolute, with ad, with in) I pay (a share), contribute
- [episcopi et archidiaconi] dicunt quod contribuere non debent, [..] quia contributio fieret contra eum qui contraxit cum principe suo.
Usage notes
Unlike its Romance descendants or cōnferre, classically always transitive.
Conjugation
Descendants
- Catalan: contribuir
- English: contribute
- French: contribuer
- Italian: contribuire
- Portuguese: contribuir
- Spanish: contribuir
References
- “contribuō” on page 478 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading
- “contribuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contribuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contribuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
contribuo
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