triumvir
Americannoun
plural
triumvirs, triumviri-
Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
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one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.
noun
Other Word Forms
- triumviral adjective
Etymology
Origin of triumvir
1570–80; < Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men
Example Sentences
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A true Southerner by birth . . . a veritable triumvir among the Tarheels .
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the same manner of consenting to a wish-fulfillment which the queen of the Parthians chose for the triumvir Crassus.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
Eros, the manumitted slave of Antony the triumvir.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Antonia was the daughter of the emperor's sister Octavia and of Mark Antony, the famous triumvir whose name remains forever linked in story with that of Cleopatra.
From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo
The legend which then formed about the family of Augustus, a legend hostile at almost every point, has interpreted this marriage as a tyrannical act, virtually an abduction, by the dissolute and perverse triumvir.
From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo
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