decemvirateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin decemvirātus, equivalent to decemvir +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

名詞

decemvirate (plural decemvirates)

1. A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:government

等位語

• See Thesaurus:government

関連する語

• decemvir
• decemviral

参照

• "decemvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• “decemvirate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.