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quattuorvir en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quattuorvir.

Meanings

  1. (historical) A member of a quattuorvirate; one of four people associated in some office.
    • The quattuorviri probably took up office on January 1st 44 B.C., although some authorities believe this event took place in October 45 B.C. 1983, Lesław Morawiecki, “Issues struck during [Julius] Caesar’s lifetime”, in Political Propaganda in the Coinage of the Late Roman Republic (44-43 B.C.), Lviv: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo, →ISBN, part I (The use of political propaganda in the struggle for power in the year 44 B.C.), page 19:

Forms

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quattuorvirs Number=Plur lexicographic
quadrumvir alternative lexicographic
quartumvir alternative lexicographic
quattuorviri Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

quattuorviral · quattuorvirate