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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, App. 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (3):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.24
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 15.13.5
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 1.26
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