septemvir

English

Etymology

Latin septemviri, plural; septem (“seven”) + viri (“men”).

Noun

septemvir (plural septemvirs or septemviri)

  1. (historical) A member of a septemvirate; one of seven people associated in some office.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for septemvir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /sepˈtem.wir/, [sɛpˈtɛm.wɪr]

Noun

septemvir m (genitive septemvirī); second declension

  1. member of a board of seven men (in plural, the board itself)

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -r.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative septemvir septemvirī
Genitive septemvirī septemvirōrum
Dative septemvirō septemvirīs
Accusative septemvirum septemvirōs
Ablative septemvirō septemvirīs
Vocative septemvir septemvirī

References
  • septemvir in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • septemvir in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • septemvir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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