septemvirate means A group of seven people, especially (politics) a council of seven men who share office or rule. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “septemvirate” is a great word
SEPTEMVIRATE — [Noun] A governing council or board composed of exactly seven individuals holding joint authority. From the Latin septemvirātus, from septemvir ("one of seven men") + -ātus (suffix forming nouns of office or state). Unlike a decemvirate, which binds ten in rule, or a triumvirate, the more familiar compact of three, a septemvirate is a rarer, more precisely calibrated instrument of collective will. It is the seven identical chairs around a heavy oak table, the seven seals pressed into cooling wax upon a decree, and the seven heads bowed in deliberation under a single dim lamp—an arithmetic of power where each absence feels like a structural crack in the edifice of state.
Etymology
From Latin septemvirātus, from septemvir + -ātus (“-ate”).
noun
- A group of seven people, especially (politics) a council of seven men who share office or rule.