tribus

From Latin tribus (“tribe”)

tribus

1. (taxonomy) The taxon tribe

tribus

1. plural of tribu

• IPA^(key): /ˈtriːbus/, [ˈt̪riːbus̠], IPA^(key): /ˈtribus/, [ˈt̪ribus̠]
• Hyphenation: tri‧bus

tribus

1. (taxonomy) tribe

tribus f

1. plural of tribu

• bruits

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bus/, [ˈtrɪ.bʊs]

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).

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.

Fourth declension.

Dative/ablative plural also tribubus.

• Catalan: tribu
• English: tribe
• Middle French: tribu
  • French: tribu
• Galician: tribo
• Italian: tribù
• Portuguese: tribo
• Romanian: trib
• Spanish: tribu
• Translingual: Tribus

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

Inflected form of trēs (“three”)

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

tribus

1. plural of tribe

tribus f pl

1. plural of tribu