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tribe

/tˈɹaɪb/TRYB
/tˈɹaɪb/TRYB

Meaningone of the three peoples of Rome

Common meaning: a people sharing descent

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√BHU‘grow, become, be, dwell, build’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 242, p. 738 · scan
  2. Latintribus‘a tribe’source
  3. Frenchtribusource
  4. Englishtribe‘a people sharing descent’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin tribus ‘one of the three peoples of Rome’.

Roots

  • tribus Latin “one of the three peoples of Rome”

Related words

tribune

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