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.”
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