octovir

== English == === Etymology === From Latin octōvir. === Noun === octovir (plural octovirs or octoviri) (historical, Ancient Rome) Any member of a group of eight officials. ==== Related terms ==== octovirate == Latin == === Etymology === From octō (“eight”) + vir (“man”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔkˈtoː.wɪr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [okˈtɔː.vir] === Noun === octōvir m (genitive octōvirī); second declension (especially in plural) octovir ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r). === References === “octovir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “octovir”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.