duumvir
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)
- One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
duumvir m (plural duumvirs)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “duumvir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- duovir (pre-Classical, Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
- duomvir (Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
- duumuir, duûmuir, duûmvir (Renaissance Latin, early modern)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Latin, synchronically duum (“of two”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /duˈum.u̯ir/, [d̪uˈʊmu̯ɪr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /duˈum.vir/, [d̪uˈumvir]
Noun[edit]
duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- “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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
duumvir m (plural duumviri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of duumvir
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) duumvir | duumvirul | (niște) duumviri | duumvirii |
genitive/dative | (unui) duumvir | duumvirului | (unor) duumviri | duumvirilor |
vocative | duumvirule | duumvirilor |
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