consul

From Latin cōnsul.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.səl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.səl/

consul (plural consuls)

1. (historical) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
2. (historical) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
3. (obsolete) A count or earl.
4. (obsolete) A councillor, particularly:
   1. (historical) A member of early modern city councils in southern France and Catalonia.
   2. (historical) An officer of the trading and merchant companies of early modern England.
   3. (historical) An official in various early modern port and trading towns, elected by resident foreign merchants to settle disputes among themselves and to represent them to the local authorities.
5. (by extension) An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of his or her country.
6. (obsolete) A counsellor.
   • Shakespeare

     Many of the consuls, raised and met,
     Are at the duke's already.

   • Bible, Job. iii. 14 (Douay version)

     With kings and consuls of the earth.

• (count): See count
• (councillor): See councillor
• (early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia): capitoul (Toulouse)
• (counsellor): See counsellor

• consulacy
• consulage
• consuless
• consul general, consul-general
• consuling
• consulship
• first consul
• vice-consul

• consular
• consularity
• consulary
• consulate

• ambassador

• UNCLOS, clonus, cluons

From Middle Dutch consul, from Latin cōnsul.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔnzʏl/

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• Hyphenation: con‧sul

consul m (plural consuls)

1. consul (official in foreign country)
2. (historical) consul (of the Roman Republic)

Borrowed from Latin cōnsul.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl/

consul m (plural consuls, feminine consule)

1. consul, in its various senses.

• (early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia): échevin; capitoul (Toulouse)

• consulaire
• consulat

• → Turkish: konsül

• “consul” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• culons

• (in oblique cases): cōnsul. (abbreviation)

From Old Latin consol. Maybe related to the Latin verb cōnsulō but details are not clear.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.sul/, [ˈkõː.sʊɫ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.sul/

cōnsul m (genitive cōnsulis); third declension

1. consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic, elected annually
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     "Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives? "

2. a proconsul
3. the highest magistrate in other states
4. an epithet of the god Jupiter

Third declension.

• consul in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• consul in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consul in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• consul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be chosen consul at the elections: comitiis consulem creari
    
  • to elect a consul: consulem creare
    
  • to declare a person consul-elect: aliquem consulem declarare (Leg. Agr. 2. 2. 4)
    
  • to offically proclaim (by the praeco, herald) a man elected consul; to return a man consul: aliquem consulem renuntiare (De Or. 2. 64. 260)
    
  • twice consul: bis consul
    
  • consul for the second, third time: iterum, tertium consul
    
  • consul for the sixth, seventh time: sextum (Pis. 9. 20), septimum consul
    
  • (ambiguous) the augurs announce an unfavourable sign: augures obnuntiant (consuli) (Phil. 2. 33. 83)
    
  • (ambiguous) let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to Cilicia as pro-consul: pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci
    
• consul in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• consul in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Latin cōnsul (“consul”).

consul m (plural consuls)

1. (Jersey) consul

• consulat (“consulate”)