different between duumvirate vs duumvir

English

Alternative forms

• duovirate

Etymology

From Latin duumvir?tus, from duumviri + -atus (“-ate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju???mv???t/

Noun

duumvirate (plural duumvirates)

1. Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people, especially two men.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 310:

     To replace the all-powerful Salan, de Gaulle appointed a duumvirate – Paul Delouvrier and General Maurice Challe.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 241:

     This was to raise the prospect of a duumvirate – ‘two heads in the same hat’, as Bernis quaintly put it.

2. (historical) Any of several offices of the Roman Republic held by two joint magistrates known as duumvirs.

Related terms

• duumvir
• duumviral

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju.??m.v?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du.??m.v??/

Noun

duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)

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

Related terms

• duumviral
• duumvirate
• triumvir

French

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumvirs)

1. duumvir

Related terms

• duumvirat
• triumvir

Further reading

• “duumvir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• duovir (ante-classical, Vulgar, post-classical, medieval)
• duomvir (Vulgar, post-classical, medieval)
• duumuir, duûmuir, duûmvir (renaissance, early modern)

Etymology

From Old Latin, synchronically duum (“of two”) + vir (“man”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /du?um.u?ir/, [d?u?omu??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /du?um.vir/, [d?u?umvir]

Noun

duumvir m (genitive duumvir?); second declension

1. duumvir

Declension

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

Descendants

• English: duumvir
• French: duumvir
• Russian: ??????? (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

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin duumvir

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumviri)

1. duumvir

Declension