quinqueviratus
Latin
Alternative forms
- V virātus, V. virātus, V.virātus (abbreviations with numeral)
Etymology
quīnquevir + -ātus (abstract noun)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷiːn.kʷe.u̯iˈraː.tus/, [kʷiːŋkʷeu̯ɪˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwin.kwe.viˈra.tus/, [kwiŋkweviˈräːt̪us]
Noun
quīnquevirātus m (genitive quīnquevirātūs); fourth declension
- quinquevirate (office or dignity of a quinquevir, membership in a commission of five)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cicero to this entry?)
see De Provinciis Consularibus Oratio 41.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- English: quinquevirate
References
- “quinquĕvĭrātus (V.)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quīnquevirātus or V viratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinquĕvĭrātŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,302/3.
- “quinqueuirātus” on page 1,557/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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