contribuo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈtri.bu.oː/, [kɔnˈtrɪ.bʊ.oː]
Verb
contribuō (present infinitive contribuere, perfect active contribuī, supine contributum); third conjugation
- I join, incorporate, unite
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
Inflection
Descendants
- Catalan: contribuir
- English: contribute
- French: contribuer
- Italian: contribuire
- Portuguese: contribuir
- Spanish: contribuir
References
- contribuo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contribuo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contribuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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