tribunus

Latin

Etymology

From tribus + -nus.

Noun

tribūnus m (genitive tribūnī); second declension

  1. chief of a tribe
  2. commander, tribune

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tribūnus tribūnī
Genitive tribūnī tribūnōrum
Dative tribūnō tribūnīs
Accusative tribūnum tribūnōs
Ablative tribūnō tribūnīs
Vocative tribūne tribūnī

Derived terms

Descendants

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)
  • tribunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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
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