英文词源
- tribute (n.)
- mid-14c., "stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one ruler or country to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of peace or protection," from Anglo-French tribute, Old French tribut and directly from Latin tributum "tribute, a stated payment, a thing contributed or paid," noun use of neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere "to pay, assign, grant," also "allot among the tribes or to a tribe," from tribus (see tribe). Sense of "offering, gift, token" is first recorded 1580s.
中文词源
tribute：贡品；称赞，颂词；(表示敬意的)礼物
词根词缀： -tribut-交给 + -e
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：tribute 词源，tribute 含义。
tribute：贡品，贡金
来自拉丁语 tribuere,支付，分配，给予，部落间的财富分配或其它，来自 tribus,部落，词源 同 tribe.引申词义贡品，贡金等。
tribute：贡品
先看tribe（部落），原指古罗马最初的三个部落，前缀tri-表“三”；最早的tribute表示部落里族长主持分战利品，或者进贡给某个部落的贡品，从而作词根时有了“给予”的含义，如contribute（贡献）、distribute（分配）、retribution（报答，报偿）等词。
tribute：贡品，贡金
来自拉丁语 tribuere,支付，分配，给予，部落间的财富分配或其它，来自 tribus,部落，词源 同 tribe.引申词义贡品，贡金等。