centumvir Latin · revision 33673

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la centum, la vir}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɛnˈtʊm.wɪr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃenˈtum.vir]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''centumvir''' ''m'' (genitive centumvirī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is chiefly plural, ''centumvirī'', also written as two words or abbreviated ''Cvirī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|centum|vir|t1=hundred|t2=man]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who mentions the court in the ''De oratore'' and in his speech for Caecina.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The ''centumvirī'' were a court at Rome that settled civil cases, especially those about inheritance.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It first had 105 members, three from each tribe, and was later enlarged, to 180 under the emperors according to Lewis & Short.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger refer to it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Similar courts are recorded in inscriptions at Perusia and Veii.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In a medieval charter of 1198 a ''centumvir'' is a town councillor.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the centumviral court.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1198 – A town councillor in a charter.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(usually plural)'' A member of the ''centumvirī'', a Roman court for [[m|en|civil]] cases, especially of [[m|en|inheritance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A town [[m|en|councillor]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[centum]]

+ * [[vir]]

+ * [[decemvir]]

+ * [[triumvir]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}