attributio
From LSJ
Λόγοις ἀμείβου τὸν λόγοις πείθοντά σε → Verbis repone verba suasori tuo → Mit Worten gib dem Antwort, der mit Worten rät
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
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.
