The story
- Latin · derived fromtributum“tribute”
- Middle French · derived fromtribut
- Middle English · inherited fromtribut
- English todaytribute
From Middle English tribut (14th c.), from Middle French tribut, from Latin tributum (“tribute”, literally “a thing contributed or paid”), past participle of tribuere (“to assign, allot”), usually derived from tribus (whence English tribe).
Words from the same roots
Latintributum all →
truage
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.