tribunus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tribus

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin tribūnus

From tribus + -nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [trɪˈbuː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [triˈbuː.nus]

Noun

tribūnus m (genitive tribūnī); second declension

1. (historical) chief of a tribe
2. commander
3. (historical, politics) tribune, tribune of the plebs
4. (historical, military) tribune, military tribune

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tribūnus	tribūnī
genitive	tribūnī	tribūnōrum
dative	tribūnō	tribūnīs
accusative	tribūnum	tribūnōs
ablative	tribūnō	tribūnīs
vocative	tribūne	tribūnī

Hyponyms

• tribunus militum
• tribūnus plēbis

Derived terms

• tribūnal
• tribunicius

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: τριβούνος (triboúnos)
• → Old French: tribun
  • → English: tribune
• → Italian: tribuno
• → Portuguese: tribuno
• → Romanian: tribun
• → Sicilian: tribbunu
• → Spanish: tribuno

References

• “tribunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tribunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tribunus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tribunus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
    
  • to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
    
• “tribunus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tribunus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “tribunus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin