attribute

To attribute something is to say what caused it or who made it. The painting is attributed to a pupil, the delay to the weather.

It takes to, always. Art history uses it constantly, since attributing a work is a whole scholarly argument, and an attributed painting is one nobody can prove. The noun, stressed on the first syllable, means a quality that belongs to somebody, as in patience is his best attribute. Attribution is the naming of a source, and it is what a licence requires when you reuse somebody's work.