triumvir

Learned borrowing from Latin triumvir.^[1] Compare Middle English triumvir (“committee of three magistrates”).^[2]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌm.və/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌm.vəɹ/

triumvir (plural triumviri or triumvirs)

1. One member of a triumvirate.

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triumvir m (plural triumvirs)

1. triumvir

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

By surface analysis, trium (“of three”) +‎ vir (“man”); see duumvir for more.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [triˈʊn.wɪr]
• Note: As this word is univerbated from trium 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): [triˈum.vir]

triumvir m (genitive triumvirī); second declension

1. triumvir, whether (formally) a member of an official three-man commission or (informal) a member of a three-man junta or other group.

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

• triumvir monetalis

• → English: triumvir (learned)

• “triumvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triumvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “triumvir”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

triumvir m (plural triumvirs)

1. triumvir

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 699

Borrowed from Latin triumvir or French triumvir.

• IPA^(key): /tri.umˈvir/

triumvir m (plural triumviri)

1. triumvir

• “triumvir”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026