duumvir

English

Etymology

Latin duo (“two”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dju.ˈʌm.və/
  • (US) IPA(key): /du.ˈʌm.vəɹ/

Noun

duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)

  1. One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.

French

Etymology

Latin duo (“two”) + vir (“man”).

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumvirs)

  1. duumvir

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /duˈum.wir/, [dʊˈʊm.wɪr]

Noun

duumvir m (genitive duumviri); second declension

  1. duumvir

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -r.

Case Singular Plural
nominative duumvir duumvirī
genitive duumvirī duumvirōrum
dative duumvirō duumvirīs
accusative duumvirum duumvirōs
ablative duumvirō duumvirīs
vocative duumvir1 duumvirī

1May also be duumvire.

Descendants

  • Russian: дуумвир (duumvir)

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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