decemvir

English

Alternative forms

• Decemvir (historical sense)
• (misspelling): decimvir

Etymology

From Latin decemvir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪ.ˈsɛm.və/
• IPA^(key): /dɪ.ˈsɛm.vəɹ/

Noun

decemvir (plural decemvirs or decemviri)

1. (historical) Any of two groups of 10 men selected in 451 and 450 B.C. to wield complete power over Rome and establish the laws of the Twelve Tables.
2. Any member of a decemvirate, a council or ruling body of 10 people, as the Venetian Council of Ten.

Derived terms

• (adj.): decemviral
• (rule; office; era): decemvirate
• (office; term): decemvirship

Related terms

• decemviral
• triumvir
• centumvir

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Latin

Etymology

From decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deˈkem.u̯ir/, [d̪ɛˈkɛmu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈt͡ʃem.vir/, [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛmvir]

Noun

decemvir m (genitive decemvirī); second declension

1. (especially in plural) decemvir

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	decemvir	decemvirī
Genitive	decemvirī	decemvirōrum
Dative	decemvirō	decemvirīs
Accusative	decemvirum	decemvirōs
Ablative	decemvirō	decemvirīs
Vocative	decemvir	decemvirī

Related terms

• decemvirālis
• decemvirātus

References

• “decemvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decemvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decemvir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.