duumvir

From Latin duumvir.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuˈʌm.və/
• (US) IPA^(key): /duˈʌm.vəɹ/

duumvir (plural duumvirs or duumviri)

1. One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.

• duumviral
• duumvirate
• triumvir

From Latin duumvir.

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɔm.viʁ/

duumvir m (plural duumvirs)

1. duumvir

• duumvirat
• triumvir

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

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

By surface analysis, duum (“of two”) +‎ vir (“man”). The term was probably rebracketed from an earlier genitival syntagma, e.g., duum virum officium/honōs (“the office of duumvirs” → “duumvirs”).^[1][2] Compare duovir and triumvir.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [duˈʊn.wɪr]
• Note: As this word is univerbated from duum vir, it contains a "final m" phoneme. The pronunciation of this final m before consonantal v in Classical Latin is thought to have been that of the letter n. See quamvīs for more.
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [duˈum.vir]

duumvir m (genitive duumvirī); second declension

1. duumvir

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

• → English: duumvir
• → French: duumvir
• → Italian: duumviro
• → Romanian: duumvir
• → Russian: дуумви́р (duumvír)

• “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

Borrowed from Latin duumvir.

duumvir m (plural duumviri)

1. duumvir