different between triumvir vs duumvir

English

Etymology

A Middle English back-formation from triumvirate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?a???m.v?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?a???m.v??/

Noun

triumvir (plural triumviri or triumvirs)

1. One member of a triumvirate

Related terms

• triumviral
• decemvir
• centumvir

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From trium (“of three”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tri?um.u?ir/, [t??i??mu??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tri?um.vir/, [t??i?umvir]

Noun

triumvir m (genitive triumvir?); second declension

1. triumvir, whether (formally) a member of an official three-man commission or (informal) a member of a three-man junta or other group.

Declension

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

Hyponyms

• triumvir monetalis

References

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

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