duumvir

English

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dju.ˈʌm.və/
  • (US) IPA(key): /du.ˈʌm.vəɹ/

Noun

duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)

  1. One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.

French

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dy.ɔm.viʁ/

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumvirs)

  1. duumvir

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Latin, synchronically duum (of two) + vir (man).

Pronunciation

Noun

duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension

  1. duumvir

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative duumvir duumvirī
Genitive duumvirī duumvirōrum
Dative duumvirō duumvirīs
Accusative duumvirum duumvirōs
Ablative duumvirō duumvirīs
Vocative duumvir duumvirī

Descendants

  • English: duumvir
  • French: duumvir
  • Russian: дуумви́р (duumvír)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duumvir.

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumviri)

  1. duumvir

Declension

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