triumvir

A Middle English back-formation from triumvirate.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌm.və/

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triumvir (plural triumviri or triumvirs)

1. One member of a triumvirate

• triumviral
• decemvir
• centumvir

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triumvir m (plural triumvirs)

1. triumvir

• “triumvir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triˈum.u̯ir/, [t̪riˈʊmu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈum.vir/, [t̪riˈumvir]

triumvir m (genitive triumvirī); 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.

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

• triumvir monetalis

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin triumvir or French triumvir.

triumvir m (plural triumviri)

1. triumvir