quartumvirate

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What does quartumvirate mean?

Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.

Where does quartumvirate come from?

From quārtus (“fourth”) + the latter part of triumvirate, possibly originally as a variant of quatrumvirate, itself a variant of quadrumvirate.

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