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quartumvirate

quartumvirate is the alternative form of quattuorvirate.

Meaning of quattuorvirate

Noun

quattuorvirate (plural quattuorvirates)

  1. A group of four people, especially a council of four men sharing office or rule.
    Synonyms:
    government

Forms of quartumvirate

pluralquartumvirates

Origin of quartumvirate

From quārtus (“fourth”) + the latter part of triumvirate, possibly originally as a variant of quatrumvirate, itself a variant of quadrumvirate.

Questions about quartumvirate

What is quartumvirate the alternative form of?
Quartumvirate is the alternative form of quattuorvirate.

Words near quartumvirate in the dictionary

  1. quartos
  2. quartridge
  3. quartridges
  4. quarts
  5. quartumvir
  6. quartumvirate
  7. quartumvirates
  8. quartumvirs
  9. quartz
  10. quartz arenite
  11. quartz arenites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quartumvirate (page history and authors); quattuorvirate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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