duovir

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin duovir.

Noun

duovir (plural duovirs)

  1. Synonym of duumvir
    • 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society:
      The duovir then asks the litigants whom they wish to serve as their iudex.

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

duovir m (genitive duovirī); second declension

  1. duumvir
    • 170 BC – 131 BC, HD003556 inscription in Rome
      A(ulus) Postumius A(uli) f(ilius) A(uli) n(epos) Albinus duovir lege / Plaetoria reficiundam coeravit
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    • 1 AD – 50 AD, HD001168 inscription in Narbonne
      / vir quinquennas duomvir / m praefectus pro duoviro augur / s militum primipilus praefectus um / onlegio Honoris et Virtutis arbitratu / Zenonis lib(erti)

Declension

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

singular plural
nominative duovir duovirī
genitive duovirī duovirōrum
dative duovirō duovirīs
accusative duovirum duovirōs
ablative duovirō duovirīs
vocative duovir duovirī

Descendants

  • → English: duovir
  • → Russian: дуовир (duovir)

References

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