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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

contributivo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kõ.tɾiˈbu.tʃi.vu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Contributory/kənˈtrɪb.jə.tər.i/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Este foi um fator contributivo importante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Playing a part in bringing about a result or situation; helping to cause something.

    "Poor diet was a contributory factor in his declining health."
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing that contributes, especially financially to a fund, pension, or company liquidation.

    "Every member of the scheme is listed as a contributory."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'contributorius', stemming from 'contributus', past participle of 'contribuere' (to bring together, contribute). It combines the assimilated prefix 'com-' (together) with 'tribuere' (to assign, pay, grant), evolving in English during the 17th century to describe factors that play a part in bringing about a result.

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