Translingual

Noun

tribus

1. (taxonomy) The taxon tribe

Catalan

Noun

tribus

1. plural of tribu

French

Noun

tribus f

1. plural of tribu

Anagrams

• bruits

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bus/

Etymology 1

Maybe from the stem of trēs ‎(“three”) + an element from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‎(“to grow, become, come into being, appear”), originally referring to three divisions of the Roman people (cf. infra).

Noun

tribus f ‎(genitive tribūs); fourth declension

1. One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes, Tities, Luceres.
2. A division of the Roman people.
3. A tribe.
4. The mob, the lower classes.

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Dative/ablative plural also tribubus.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: tribe
• French: tribu
• Galician: tribo
• Italian: tribù
• Portuguese: tribo
• Spanish: tribu
• Translingual: Tribus

References

• tribus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tribus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TRIBUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tribus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
    
  • to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49)
    
  • to expel some one from his tribe: tribu movere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    
• tribus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tribus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• tribus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1090

Etymology 2

Inflected form of trēs ‎(“three”)

Numeral

tribus

1. dative masculine of trēs
2. dative feminine of trēs
3. dative neuter of trēs
4. ablative masculine of trēs
5. ablative feminine of trēs
6. ablative neuter of trēs

Spanish

Noun

tribus f pl

1. plural of tribu