tribui

Tribui is a Portuguese verb form that appears as the third-person singular present indicative of the verb tribuir. The sense attributed to the verb is to attribute, assign, or ascribe a quality, responsibility, or credit to someone or something. In many modern contexts, the more common verb for this idea is atribuir, which makes tribuir and its forms relatively rare and often found in older texts, in highly formal registers, or in legal and philosophical writing where a more archaic tone is desired.

Etymologically, tribuir derives from the Latin tribuere, meaning to grant or to assign. Through its development in the Romance languages, it gave rise to forms and meanings related to distribution, allocation, and attribution, of which tribui represents a present-tense inflection in contemporary Portuguese.

Usage notes and examples:

- Tribui tends to carry a slightly formal or archaic nuance in modern Portuguese, with atribuir being the default choice in everyday language.

- Example usage (stylized): Ele tribui a culpa à equipe. This sentence paraphrases that he attributes the blame to the team, though in everyday writing one would more likely say ele atribui a culpa à equipe.

Related terms include atribuir (to attribute), culpa (blame), and responsabilidade (responsibility). Tribui thus sits in the language as a less common form for attributive attribution, often signaling formal, historical, or literary tone.