triumvir means One member of a triumvirate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TRIUMVIR — [Noun] One member of a triumvirate, a group of three individuals sharing authority or office. From Latin triumvir, a back-formation from trium virōrum ("of three men"), from tres ("three") + vir ("man"). Unlike "triumvirate" (which denotes the collective trio) or "duumvir" (which implies a paired rule), "triumvir" isolates the individual within the triad—a single point in a fragile geometry of power. It is the uneasy balance of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus; the silent third vote in a deadlocked council; the way a three-legged stool collapses when one leg splinters. To be a triumvir is to know that your strength is borrowed, and that the absence of any one of you undoes the whole.
noun
- One member of a triumvirate.