attributio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

attrĭbūtĭo (adt-), ōnis, f. [attribuo].

I The assignment of a money-debt (cf. attribuo, I.).

A Lit.: de attributione conficies, Cic. Fam. 16, 24; id. Att. 15, 13, 5; so id. ib. 16, 1 and 3.—

B Trop.: Graeci Fatum ... Νέμεσιν vocant, quod unicuique attributio sua sit adscripta, i. e. his fate is meted out , Ap. de Mund. p. 754.—

II In gram., a predicate , attribute , = attributum ex his etiam attributionibus: sacer an profanus, publicus an privatus, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 38.

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