adtributio

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... Nemesin 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.