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Latin
Etymology
quīnquevir + -ātus (abstract noun)
Pronunciation
Noun
quīnquevirātus m (genitive quīnquevirātūs); fourth declension
- quinquevirate (office or dignity of a quinquevir, membership in a commission of five)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cicero to this entry?)
see De Provinciis Consularibus Oratio 41.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “quinquĕvĭrātus (V.)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quīnquevirātus or V viratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “quinquĕvĭrātŭs”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette, page 1,302/3.
- “quinqueuirātus” on page 1,557/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)