Tribute
late Middle English (in tribute (sense 2)): from Latin tributum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of tribuere ‘assign’ (originally ‘divide between tribes’), from tribus ‘tribe’.
wiktionary
From Middle English[Term?], from Old French tribut, from Latin tributum(“tribute”, literally “a thing contributed or paid”), neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere(“to assign, allot, grant, give, bestow, etc.”), usually derived, from tribus(“tribe”). See tribe.
etymonline
tribute (n.)
mid-14c., "stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one ruler or country to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of peace or protection," from Anglo-French tribute, Old French tribut and directly from Latin tributum "tribute, a stated payment, a thing contributed or paid," noun use of neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere "to pay, assign, grant," also "allot among the tribes or to a tribe," from tribus (see tribe). Sense of "offering, gift, token" is first recorded 1580s.
