“contribution” in Latin

collatio (act of contributing; e.g., collatio stipis aut decimae; and “contribution,” as thing; in post-Augustan writers, the contributions paid to the emperors): collatus, us (late; Censor., cum tuo collatu scirem me plura didicisse): *pecunia ad rem juvandam collata, data: stips: collecta, ae (money collected or contributed; the former especially, of what is begged; the latter at places of entertainment, etc.): symbola (contribution to a feast, comedy): [ ☞ Contributio not used in this sense except in Dig., and jurisconsults, but collatio, or, if a forced contribution, tributum: pecuniae imperatae or exactae, etc., Vid: IMPOST.] To levy contributions on the towns or stales, pecuniam a civitatibus cogere: to exact the payment of their contributions, pecunias exigere (with great strictness, etc., acerbissime): to demand a contribution from a guest, collectam a conviva exigere (Cic.): to give a contribution, stipem conferre; (for a feast) symbolam dare. A contribution to the expenses of a war, tributum, unde belli impensae tolerantur (after Plin., 12, 14, 32): to pay contributions, stipendium or tributum pendere: to refuse to pay their contributions, stipendium or de stipendio recusare: to levy contributions on a country, or put a country under contributions, regioni stipendium imponere, pecunias imperare, argentum in stipendium imponere.

Article contributed to a journal; to send many contributions to the transactions of a litterary society, *acta eruditorum multis accessionibus augere (Morus).