duumvir

English

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

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.

Related terms

• duumviral
• duumvirate
• triumvir

French

Etymology

From Latin duumvir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɔm.viʁ/

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumvirs)

1. duumvir

Related terms

• duumvirat
• triumvir

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• duovir (pre-Classical, Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
• duomvir (Vulgar Latin, post-classical, Medieval Latin)
• duumuir, duûmuir, duûmvir (Renaissance Latin, early modern)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /duˈum.u̯ir/, [d̪uˈʊmu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈum.vir/, [d̪uˈumvir]

Noun

duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension

1. duumvir

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	duumvir	duumvirī
Genitive	duumvirī	duumvirōrum
Dative	duumvirō	duumvirīs
Accusative	duumvirum	duumvirōs
Ablative	duumvirō	duumvirīs
Vocative	duumvir	duumvirī

Descendants

• English: duumvir
• French: duumvir
• Russian: дуумви́р (duumvír)

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

Borrowed from Latin duumvir.

Noun

duumvir m (plural duumviri)

1. duumvir

Declension

Declension of duumvir

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) duumvir	duumvirul	(niște) duumviri	duumvirii
genitive/dative	(unui) duumvir	duumvirului	(unor) duumviri	duumvirilor
vocative	duumvirule		duumvirilor