tributor

English

Etymology

tribute +‎ -or

Noun

tributor (plural tributors)

  1. (mining) A miner who was paid a percentage of the value of whatever ore he mined.

Latin

Etymology

From tribuō (“grant, bestow”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

tribūtor m (genitive tribūtōris); third declension

  1. a giver, imparter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tribūtor tribūtōrēs
Genitive tribūtōris tribūtōrum
Dative tribūtōrī tribūtōribus
Accusative tribūtōrem tribūtōrēs
Ablative tribūtōre tribūtōribus
Vocative tribūtor tribūtōrēs

References
  • “tributor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tributor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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