different between tribe vs sagamore

English

Etymology

From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

tribe (plural tribes)

1. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
5. The collective noun for various animals.
6. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Derived terms

• tribal
• tribally
• tribelet

Translations

Verb

tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)

1. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
   • 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library

     Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

See also

• ethnic
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trybe, tribu

Etymology

From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/

Noun

tribe (plural tribus)

1. One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2. (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
3. (rare) A league or grouping.

Descendants

• English: tribe

References

• “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1610s–1620s. From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”); Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”); Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”). Ultimately the same Proto-Algonquian root *sa·kima·wa as sachem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæ??m??(?)/

Noun

sagamore (plural sagamores)

1. A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians.
   • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish

     Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow.

2. (obsolete) A juice used in medicine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• sachem

Anagrams

• georamas