different between quadrumvirate vs quatrumvirate

English

From quadri- (“four”) + the second part of triumvirate (“rule by three men”). Cf. Latin quattuorvir?tus.

quadrumvirate (plural quadrumvirates)

"quadrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.

quatrumvirate (plural quatrumvirates)

(obsolete) Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
- 1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:
  For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe.

"†quatrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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