tributor

English

Etymology

From 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈbuː.tor/, [t̪rɪˈbuːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈbu.tor/, [t̪riˈbuːt̪or]

Noun

tribūtor m (genitive tribūtōris); third declension

1. a giver, imparter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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.