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triumvirate

/tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables
tri-um-vir-ate
IPA
/tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.

noun

Any group of three joint rulers.

noun

Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Italic *trejes Proto-Italic *trēs Latin trium Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Italic *wiros Latin vir Latin triumvir Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus, -tūs Latin -ātus Latin triumvirātuslbor. ▲ Latin -ātusder. English -ate English triumvirate Learned borrowing from Latin triumvirātus (“triumvirate”) (see -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting offices or ranks)), itself derived from triumvir (“member of a triumvirate”) + -ātus (“-ate”, suffix forming nouns denoting offices or ranks, or groups of officials associated with such offices or ranks); and triumvir from trium (“of three”) (the genitive form of trēs (“three”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + vir (“adult male human, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”)). By surface analysis, triumvir + -ate.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *tréyes, *wiHrós

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/
  • British English: /tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/

Inflected Forms

triumvirates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

triumvir triumviral government duumvirate · quattuorvirate · quinquevirate · sextumvirate · septemvirate · octovirate · novemvirate · decemvirate · undecimvirate · duodecimvirate · quindecimvirate · vigintivirate · centumvirate · quingentumvirate

Synonyms

leash tern ternary ternion threeness threesome triad trinary trine trinity trio triplet

Questions

How do you pronounce triumvirate?
The recorded pronunciation is /tɹaɪˈʌmvəɹət/.
What does triumvirate mean?
A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.
Where does triumvirate come from?
It is traced to Proto-Indo-European.

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