centumvir

From Latin centumvir.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtʌm.və/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtʌm.vəɹ/

centumvir (plural centumvirs or centumviri)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) One of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

• centumviral

• decemvir
• triumvir

From centum (“hundred”) + vir (“man”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kenˈtum.u̯ir/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊmu̯ɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈtum.vir/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪umvir]

centumvir m (genitive centumvirī); second declension

1. (especially in plural) centumvir

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

• Catalan: centumvir
• Italian: centumviro
• Portuguese: centúnviro
• Spanish: centunviro

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

Borrowed from Latin centumvir.

centumvir m (plural centumviri)

1. centumvir