Latin

Verb

contribuō ‎(present infinitive contribuere, perfect active contribuī, supine contributum); third conjugation

1. I join, incorporate, unite
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

Inflection

Descendants

• French: contribuer
• Spanish: contribuir

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

contribuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of contribuir