vigintivir

English

Etymology

From Latin vīgintivir.

Noun

vigintivir (plural vigintivirs or vigintiviri)

1. (historical) Any member of a group of twenty officials.

Related terms

• vigintivirate
• vigintiviral

Latin

Etymology

From vīgintī (“twenty”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈɡin.ti.u̯ir/, [u̯iːˈɡɪn̪t̪iu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈd͡ʒin.ti.vir/, [viˈd͡ʒin̪t̪ivir]

Noun

vīgintivir m (genitive vīgintivirī); second declension

1. (especially in plural) vigintivir

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	vīgintivir	vīgintivirī
genitive	vīgintivirī	vīgintivirōrum
dative	vīgintivirō	vīgintivirīs
accusative	vīgintivirum	vīgintivirōs
ablative	vīgintivirō	vīgintivirīs
vocative	vīgintivir	vīgintivirī

References

• “vigintivir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vigintivir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.