quattuorviraten.

Brit.

/ˌkwatjuːˈɔːvᵻrət/,

/ˌkwɒtjuːˈɔːvᵻrət/, U.S.

/ˌkwɑtjuˈɔrvərət/

Forms: 1800s– quattuorvirate, 1800s– quatuorvirate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quattuorvirātus.

Etymology: < classical Latin quattuorvirātus office of a member of a council of four < classical Latin quattuorvir (in post-classical Latin also quatuorvir ) member of a council of four ( < quattuor four (see quatuor n.) + vir man (see virile adj.), originally in plural, after the phrase quattuor virī , literally ‘four men’) + -ātus -ate suffix¹. Compare French quatuorvirat (1867 or earlier in this sense; earlier in sense ‘rank of a quattuorvir’ (1842 or earlier)). Compare earlier quadrumvirate n., quatrumvirate n., quartumvirate n.

A group or body of four men; esp. a powerful or ruling group; = quadrumvirate n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four > persons

quadrivirate1654

quatrumvirate1684

partie carrée1693

quadrumvirate1752

quartetto1771

quartet1814

quartumvirate1840

square party1851

quattuorvirate1856

foursome1926

1856 W. C. Lake in Life (1901) 195 Lending his religious influence to the Triumvirate or Quatuorvirate.

1895 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (ed. 3) II. lxxxviii. 387 The undisguised supremacy which this new arrangement, amounting almost to dictatorship (purchased, as was believed, by gross bribery conducted by Tweed himself in the State legislature at Albany), conferred upon the quatuorvirate was no unmixed advantage.

1916 H. Taylor Cicero viii. 198 He proposed to place the direction of affairs in the hands of a quatuorvirate, Cicero, Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar.

1962 F. Mansur Process of Independence iv. 118 Of the Sukarno–Hatta–Sjahrir–Sjarifuddin quattuorvirate, only Sukarno and Hatta were left by 1949.

1993 K. Lomas Rome & Western Greeks ix. 149 A small number of Latin decrees and cursus inscriptions exist, which indicate the existence of a duovirate, in addition to the Greek magistracies and the quattuorvirate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quattuorvirate
释义	quattuorviraten. Brit. /ˌkwatjuːˈɔːvᵻrət/, /ˌkwɒtjuːˈɔːvᵻrət/, U.S. /ˌkwɑtjuˈɔrvərət/ Forms: 1800s– quattuorvirate, 1800s– quatuorvirate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quattuorvirātus. Etymology: < classical Latin quattuorvirātus office of a member of a council of four < classical Latin quattuorvir (in post-classical Latin also quatuorvir ) member of a council of four ( < quattuor four (see quatuor n.) + vir man (see virile adj.), originally in plural, after the phrase quattuor virī , literally ‘four men’) + -ātus -ate suffix¹. Compare French quatuorvirat (1867 or earlier in this sense; earlier in sense ‘rank of a quattuorvir’ (1842 or earlier)). Compare earlier quadrumvirate n., quatrumvirate n., quartumvirate n. A group or body of four men; esp. a powerful or ruling group; = quadrumvirate n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four > persons quadrivirate1654 quatrumvirate1684 partie carrée1693 quadrumvirate1752 quartetto1771 quartet1814 quartumvirate1840 square party1851 quattuorvirate1856 foursome1926 1856 W. C. Lake in Life (1901) 195 Lending his religious influence to the Triumvirate or Quatuorvirate. 1895 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (ed. 3) II. lxxxviii. 387 The undisguised supremacy which this new arrangement, amounting almost to dictatorship (purchased, as was believed, by gross bribery conducted by Tweed himself in the State legislature at Albany), conferred upon the quatuorvirate was no unmixed advantage. 1916 H. Taylor Cicero viii. 198 He proposed to place the direction of affairs in the hands of a quatuorvirate, Cicero, Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar. 1962 F. Mansur Process of Independence iv. 118 Of the Sukarno–Hatta–Sjahrir–Sjarifuddin quattuorvirate, only Sukarno and Hatta were left by 1949. 1993 K. Lomas Rome & Western Greeks ix. 149 A small number of Latin decrees and cursus inscriptions exist, which indicate the existence of a duovirate, in addition to the Greek magistracies and the quattuorvirate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856
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