Word of the Day – Triumvir

Triumvir (noun)

tri-um-ver

Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.

1570–80; Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men

Example sentences

“When the townsman was made was made a triumvir, he henceforth became little less than dictator.”