duumvir
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)
- One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
Related terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
duumvir m (plural duumvirs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “duumvir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Alternative forms
- duovir (pre-Classical, Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
- duomvir (Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
- duumuir, duûmuir, duûmvir (Renaissance Latin, early modern)
Etymology
From Old Latin, synchronically duum (“of two”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /duˈum.u̯ir/, [d̪uˈʊmu̯ɪr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /duˈum.vir/, [d̪uˈumvir]
Noun
duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r).
Descendants
References
- “duumvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “duumvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duumvir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “duumvir”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “duumvir”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Etymology
Noun
duumvir m (plural duumviri)
Declension
Declension of duumvir
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