tribunatus Latin · revision 30961

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la tribus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [trɪ.buːˈnaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tri.buˈnaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tribūnātus''' ''m'' (genitive tribūnātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|tribūnus|t=tribune]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ātus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Tribūnus⟩ comes from [[m|la|tribus|t=tribe]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*triþu-|t=tripartite entity]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*tri-dʰh₁-u-|t=tripartite division]], cognate with [[xum|trifu|t=district]].^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD also quotes a speech of the orator Crassus: ''quod eam lēgem in tribūnātū tulistī'', “because you carried that law in your tribunate”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the office of tribune, its term or its exercise: of a military tribune, as Cicero's ''dē tribūnātū mīlitārī'', and of a tribune of the plebs, as Cotta, who sought the tribunate of the plebs, or Sestius' tribunate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero asks whether the augurs overturn a man's whole tribunate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Medieval Latin it is the district of a ''vicārius'', a viscounty, and a manorial district.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the tribunates of the plebs and of the soldiers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of [[m|en|tribune]], [[m|en|tribuneship]] (of the plebs or of the soldiers).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The district of a ''vicārius''; a [[m|en|viscounty]]; a manorial district.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tribūnus]]

+ * [[tribus]]

+ * [[tribūnīcius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}