decemvir

• Decemvir (historical sense)
• (misspelling): decimvir

From Latin decemvir.

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

decemvir (plural decemvirs or decemviri)

1. (historical) Any of two groups of 10 men selected in 451 and 450 B.C. to wield complete power over Rome and establish the laws of the Twelve Tables.
2. Any member of a decemvirate, a council or ruling body of 10 people, as the Venetian Council of Ten.

• (adj.): decemviral
• (rule; office; era): decemvirate
• (office; term): decemvirship

• decemviral
• triumvir
• centumvir

From decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɛˈkɛm.wɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈt͡ʃɛm.vir]

decemvir m (genitive decemvirī); second declension

1. (especially in plural) decemvir

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

• decemvirālis
• decemvirātus

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

Borrowed from Latin decemvir.

decemvir m (plural decemviri)

1. decemvir