duumvirate
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Etymology
From Latin duumvirātus, from duumvir + -ātus. Equivalent to duumvir + -ate (forms nound denoting rank or office, here the group of people involved with it).
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duumvirate (plural duumvirates)
- Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people, especially two men.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 310:
- To replace the all-powerful Salan, de Gaulle appointed a duumvirate – Paul Delouvrier and General Maurice Challe.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 241:
- This was to raise the prospect of a duumvirate – ‘two heads in the same hat’, as Bernis quaintly put it.
- (historical) Any of several offices of the Roman Republic held by two joint magistrates known as duumvirs.
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Roman offices
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