Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A body of officers of government consisting of twenty men.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men.
  • noun The office or status of the vigintiviri.

Etymologies

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Latin vigintiviratus, from vigintiviri; viginti twenty + vir a man.

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