contributio

Latin

Etymology

From contribūō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.triˈbuː.ti.oː/, [kɔn̪t̪rɪˈbuːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.triˈbut.t͡si.o/, [kon̪t̪riˈbut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

contribūtiō f (genitive contribūtiōnis); third declension

1. payment, contribution
2. distribution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contribūtiō	contribūtiōnēs
genitive	contribūtiōnis	contribūtiōnum
dative	contribūtiōnī	contribūtiōnibus
accusative	contribūtiōnem	contribūtiōnēs
ablative	contribūtiōne	contribūtiōnibus
vocative	contribūtiō	contribūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: contribució
• French: contribution
• Galician: contribución
• Italian: contribuzione
• Occitan: contribucion
• Portuguese: contribuição
• Romanian: contribuție
• Russian: контрибу́ция (kontribúcija)
• Spanish: contribución
• Swedish: kontribution

References

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