attributio

Latin

Etymology

From attribuō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /at.triˈbuː.ti.oː/, [ät̪ːrɪˈbuːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.triˈbut.t͡si.o/, [ät̪ːriˈbut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

attribūtiō f (genitive attribūtiōnis); third declension

1. assignment of a debt
2. predicate, attribute

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	attribūtiō	attribūtiōnēs
genitive	attribūtiōnis	attribūtiōnum
dative	attribūtiōnī	attribūtiōnibus
accusative	attribūtiōnem	attribūtiōnēs
ablative	attribūtiōne	attribūtiōnibus
vocative	attribūtiō	attribūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: atribució
• Corsican: attribuzione, attribuzioni
• English: attribution
• → French: attribution
• Friulian: atribuzion
• Galician: atribución
• Italian: attribuzione
• Occitan: atribucion
• Portuguese: atribuição
• Romanian: atribuție, atribuțiune
• Spanish: atribución

References

• “attributio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attributio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• attributio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.