DECEMVIR

Definitions: DECEMVIR

DECEMVIR

Noun

1. A member of any body of ten men in authority.

2. One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DECEMVIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Decemvir \De*cem"vir\, noun; plural English Decemvirs, from Latin expression Decemviri. [Latin expression, from decem ten vir man.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: DECEMVIR

English words defined with "DECEMVIR": Decemviri, Decemvirs, Decemvirship. (references)

Etymologies containing "DECEMVIR": Dean ♦ Virile. (references)

Non-English Usage: "DECEMVIR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (decemvir).

Language		Translations for "DECEMVIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏العشاري (of ten). (various references)

Bulgarian		децемвир. (various references)

Hungarian		decemvir. (various references)

Indonesian		sepuluh orang. (various references)

Italian		decemviro. (various references)

Pig Latin		ecemvirday.(various references)

Portuguese		decênviro. (various references)

Russian		децемвир. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dekumvirat. (various references)

Spanish		gobierno (administration, government, guidance, handling, lieu, polity, ruling, running, steering, stewardship). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DECEMVIR": decemviral, decemvirate, decemvirates, decemviri, decemvirs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "DECEMVIR" (pronounced 'De*cem"vir'): Centumvir, Duumvir, Levir, Quindecemvir, Septemvir, triumvir. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-r-v"
	-2 letters: cervid, deicer, derive, dermic, device, reived.
	-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, creed, creme, cried, crime, deice, dicer, dimer, diver, drive, eider, medic, merde, mired, reive, riced, rimed, rived, viced.
	-4 letters: cede, cedi, cere, cire, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dice, dime, dire, dive, dree, eide, emic, emir, ever, iced, idem, ired, meed, mere, mice, mire, rede, reed, rice, ride, rime, rive, veer, vice, vide, vied, vier.
	-5 letters: cee, dee, dev, die, dim, eme, ere, eve, ice, ire, med, mid, mir, rec, red, ree, rei, rem, rev, rid, rim, vee, vie, vim.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-r-v"
	+1 letter: decemviri, decemvirs, vermicide.
	+2 letters: decemviral, vermicides.
	+3 letters: decemvirate, divorcement, overclaimed.
	+4 letters: circumvented, decemvirates, divorcements, improvidence, misperceived, overmedicate, vermiculated.
	+5 letters: improvidences, overcommitted, overdominance, overmedicated, overmedicates.
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