decemvirate
English
Alternative forms
- Decemvirate (specific uses)
Etymology
From Latin decemvirātus, from decemvirī (“decemvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Noun
decemvirate (plural decemvirates)
- A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law c. 450 bc.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:government
Coordinate terms
- See Thesaurus:government
Related terms
- See decemvir
References
- "decemvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- decemvirate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.