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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *triþu-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [trɪ.buːˈnɪ.ki.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [tri.buˈniː.t͡ʃi.us]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''tribūnicius''' (feminine tribūnicia, neuter tribūnicium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''tribūnītius''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed from [[m|la|tribūnus|t=tribune]] with the suffix [[m|la|-icius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Tribūnus⟩ is from [[m|la|tribus|t=tribe]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*triþu-|t=tripartite entity]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) He speaks of ''crūdēlitās tribūnicia'', the cruelty of a tribune, and of ''tribūnicia potestās'', the power of the tribunes demanded back by the people.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is used of a military tribune, as Quintus Cicero's discipline kept by the tribunes' counsel, and more often of a tribune of the plebs and his office: ''tribūnicia potestās'' was the tribunes' power, and a ''viātor tribūnicius'' was a tribune's attendant (Valerius Maximus).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun ''tribūnicius'' is a former tribune, who kept that rank (Cicero), and in an inscription a man who had been tribune of a college.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In medieval Latin a ''vir tribūniciae potestātis'' was a deputy, a vicar.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of tribunes' power and of former tribunes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the tribunes' power.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of a military [[m|en|tribune]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Of a tribune of the plebs, [[m|en|tribunician]], ''tribūnicia potestās'', the tribunes' power.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # A former tribune.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[tribūnus]]
+ * [[tribus]]
+ * [[tribūnal]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}