duumvir
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)
- One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
Related terms
French
Etymology
Noun
duumvir m (plural duumvirs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “duumvir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From duo (“two”) + vir (“man”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /duˈum.u̯ir/, [d̪uˈʊmu̯ɪr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /duˈum.vir/, [d̪uˈumvir]
Noun
duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension
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
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
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