septemvir
English
Etymology
Noun
septemvir (plural septemvirs or septemviri)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
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
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.
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