septemvir

English

Etymology

From Latin septemvir

Noun

septemvir (plural septemvirs or septemviri)

1. (historical) A member of a septemvirate; one of seven people associated in some office.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “septemvir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Related terms

• septemviral
• septemvirate

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Latin

Etymology

From septem (“seven”) + vir (“man”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sepˈtem.u̯ir/, [s̠ɛpˈt̪ɛmu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sepˈtem.vir/, [sepˈt̪ɛmvir]

Noun

septemvir m (genitive septemvirī); second declension

1. septemvir

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	septemvir	septemvirī
Genitive	septemvirī	septemvirōrum
Dative	septemvirō	septemvirīs
Accusative	septemvirum	septemvirōs
Ablative	septemvirō	septemvirīs
Vocative	septemvir	septemvirī

References

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