Sep 1, 2007
tribe: c.1250, from Latin tribus, “one of the three political/ethnic divisions of the original Roman state” - Tites, Ramnes, and Luceres, corresponding, perhaps, to the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans.

tribute: c.1340, “allot among the tribes or to a tribe.”

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