Lewis & Short

attrĭbūtĭo (adt-), ōnis, f. [attribuo].

  1. I. The assignment of a money-debt (cf. attribuo, I.).
    1. A. Lit.: de attributione conficies, Cic. Fam. 16, 24; id. Att. 15, 13, 5; so id. ib. 16, 1 and 3.
    2. B. Trop.: Graeci Fatum … Νέμεσιν vocant, quod unicuique attributio sua sit adscripta, i. e. his fate is meted out, App. de Mund. p. 754.
  2. II. In gram., a predicate, attribute, = attributum ex his etiam attributionibus: sacer an profanus, publicus an privatus, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 38.