Definitions for duumvir

duumvir du·um·vir

Spelling: [doo-uhm-ver, dyoo-]
IPA: /duˈʌm vər, dyu-/

Duumvir is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in duumvir (dimruuv).

Definitions for duumvir

noun

  1. one of two officers or magistrates jointly exercising the same public function.

Origin of duumvir

1590-1600; Latin, back formation from duumvirōrum, genitive plural of duovirī two men, equivalent to duo- duo- + virī, plural of vir man, cognate with Old English wer

Examples for duumvir

Probably a consular personage, a duumvir, since lictors lead the line.

Caius Servilius, duumvir, also dedicated a temple of Jupiter, in the island.

The elder, Rufus, was duumvir for the fourth term in 3-2 B.C.

He was, with Csar, the year after, one of the judges (duumvir perduellionis) in the trial of C. Rabirius.

Word Value for duumvir
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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