tribulum

Latin

Etymology 1

From tr(i) (“to rub”) +‎ -bulum (“instrumental suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub”) + *-dʰlom (“instrumental suffix”). Do not confuse with trĭbulus (“caltrop”).

Alternative forms

• trībula

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtriː.bu.lum/, [ˈt̪riːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bu.lum/, [ˈt̪riːbulum]

Noun

trībulum n (genitive trībulī); second declension

1. threshing board, threshing sledge

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Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trībulum	trībula
Genitive	trībulī	trībulōrum
Dative	trībulō	trībulīs
Accusative	trībulum	trībula
Ablative	trībulō	trībulīs
Vocative	trībulum	trībula

Derived terms

• tribulō

Descendants

• Catalan: trill
• Portuguese: trilho, trilha
• Sicilian: trìvulu
• Spanish: trillo, trilla
• → Ancient Greek: τρίβολος (tríbolos), τρίβολα f (tríbola) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Noun

tribulum

1. accusative singular of tribulus

References

• “tribulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tribulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tribulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tribulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tribulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 135