decemvirate
English
Alternative forms
- Decemvirate (specific uses)
- (misspelling): decimvirate
Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DECEMVIRATE decemvirātus, equivalent to decemvir + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office)Category:English terms suffixed with -ate (rank or office)#DECEMVIRATE.
Noun
decemvirate (plural decemvirates)Category:English lemmas#DECEMVIRATECategory:English nouns#DECEMVIRATECategory:English countable nouns#DECEMVIRATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DECEMVIRATECategory:Pages with entries#DECEMVIRATECategory:Pages with 1 entry#DECEMVIRATE
- A group of ten people, especially (politicsCategory:en:Politics#DECEMVIRATE) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#DECEMVIRATE) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
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- "decemvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- “decemvirate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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