Latin

Noun

tribūnus m ‎(genitive tribūnī); second declension

1. chief of a tribe
2. commander, tribune

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• tribūnal

Descendants

• French: tribun
• Italian: tribuno
• Portuguese: tribuno
• Spanish: tribuno

References

• tribunus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tribunus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TRIBUNUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tribunus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
    
  • to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
    
• tribunus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tribunus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• tribunus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin