triumvir

[ trahy-uhm-ver ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural tri·um·virs, tri·um·vi·ri [trahy-, uhm, -v, uh, -rahy].

Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.

triumvir

/ traɪˈʌmvə /

1570–80; < Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men

C16: from Latin: one of three administrators, from triumvirōrum of three men, from trēs three + vir man

Mazzini was made a Triumvir, and henceforth became little less than dictator.

This assembly had the right of appointing a successor to an outgoing triumvir every six months.

Triumvir, trī-um′vir, n. one of three men in the same office or government:—pl.

He also received a grant of land at Potentia or Pisaurum from Fulvius, who was then triumvir coloniae deducendae.

After much dallying the triumvir really started for the wild East, whither it is not our business to follow him.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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