Meanings
nounquattuorvir (plural quattuorvirs or quattuorviri)
plural quattuorvirs · plural quattuorviri · alternative quadrumvir · alternative quartumvir
- historicalA member of a quattuorvirate; one of four people associated in some office.
The quattuorviri probably took up office on January 1st 44 B.C., although some authorities believe this event took place in October 45 B.C.
1983, Lesław Morawiecki, “Issues struck during [Julius] Caesar’s lifetime”, in Political Propaganda in the Coinage of the Late Roman Republic (44-43 B.C.), Lviv: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo, →ISBN, part I (The use of political propaganda in the struggle for power in the year 44 B.C.), page 19
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Origin
- Latinquattuorvir
- Englishquattuorvir
Learned borrowing from Latin quattuorvir.
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