duovir

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin duovir.

Noun

duovir (plural duovirs)

Synonym of duumvir
- 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society:
  The duovir then asks the litigants whom they wish to serve as their iudex.

Latin

Alternative forms

duomvir, duumvir, duûmvir, duûmuir, duumuir

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o.u̯ir/, [ˈd̪uou̯ɪr]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.o.vir/, [ˈd̪uːovir]

Noun

duovir m (genitive duovirī); second declension

duumvir
- 170 BC – 131 BC, HD003556 inscription in Rome
  A(ulus) Postumius A(uli) f(ilius) A(uli) n(epos) Albinus duovir lege / Plaetoria reficiundam coeravit
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- 1 AD – 50 AD, HD001168 inscription in Narbonne
  / [duom]vir quinquenna[li]s duomvir / [iteru]m praefectus pro duoviro augur / [tribunu]s militum primipilus praefectus [navi]um / [ex c]onlegio Honoris et Virtutis arbitratu / Zenonis lib(erti)

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	duovir	duovirī
Genitive	duovirī	duovirōrum
Dative	duovirō	duovirīs
Accusative	duovirum	duovirōs
Ablative	duovirō	duovirīs
Vocative	duovir	duovirī

Descendants

→ English: duovir
→ Russian: дуовир (duovir)

References

“duovir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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