tresviri

== Latin == === Alternative forms === trīsvirī === Etymology === From trēs +‎ virī. Compare triumvirī. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtreːs.wɪ.riː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtrɛz.vi.ri] === Noun === trēsvirī m pl (genitive trēsvirōrum); second declension three men holding an office together, or associated in public business, a board of three, three joint commissioners; especially: as overseers of prisons and streets nightlife as inferior priests: trēsvirī epulōnēs (sometimes given as triumvirī epulōnēs) as commissioners to distribute land among Roman colonists ; cf. also under Treveri. as officers of the mint ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, plural only. ==== Related terms ==== triumvir === Further reading === “tresviri”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tresviri”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.