quindecimvir

== English == === Alternative forms === quindecemvir === Etymology === From Latin quīndecimvir, from quindecim (“fifteen”) + vir (“man”). === Noun === quindecimvir (plural quindecimvirs or quindecimviri) (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. ==== Coordinate terms ==== triumvir, decemvir ==== Related terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From quīndecim (“fifteen”) + vir (“man”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʷiːn.dɛˈkɪm.wɪr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kʷin.deˈt͡ʃim.vir] === Noun === quīndecimvir m (genitive quīndecimvirī); second declension (especially in plural) quindecimvir ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r). ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “quindecimvir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “quindecimvir”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.