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quindecemvir

quindecemvir is the alternative form of quindecimvir.

Meaning of quindecimvir

Noun

quindecimvir (plural quindecimvirs or quindecimviri)

  1. (historical) Any member of an official group of fifteen people, especially a member of the 15-man college of priests who cared for the Sibylline Books in ancient Rome.

Forms of quindecemvir

pluralquindecemvirs
pluralquindecemviri

Origin of quindecemvir

From Latin quindecemvir, from quindecim (“fifteen”) + vir (“man”).

Questions about quindecemvir

What is quindecemvir the alternative form of?
Quindecemvir is the alternative form of quindecimvir.

Words near quindecemvir in the dictionary

  1. quindecagons
  2. quindecamine
  3. quindecangle
  4. quindecangles
  5. quindecasyllabic
  6. quindecemvir
  7. quindecemvirate
  8. quindecemviri
  9. quindecemvirs
  10. quindecennalia
  11. quindecennalias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quindecemvir (page history and authors); quindecimvir (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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