tribunate

From Latin tribunatus, from tribunus (“tribune, tribal leader”) + -atus (“-ate: forming adjectives”), from tribus (“tribe”). Compare French tribunat.

tribunate (countable and uncountable, plural tribunates)

1. The state or office of a tribune.

• tribuneship

• “tribunate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• intratube, tube train, turbinate