proconsul

See also: Proconsul

English

Etymology

From Latin prōcōnsul.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈkɒn.səl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈkɑn.səl/
• Rhymes: -ɒnsəl

Noun

proconsul (plural proconsuls)

1. (in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.

Related terms

• proconsular
• proconsulship
• proconsulate

Translations

in ancient Rome: a magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province

• Bulgarian: проконсул m (prokonsul)
• Catalan: procònsol (ca) m
• Coptic: ⲁⲛⲑⲩⲡⲁⲧⲟⲥ (anthupatos)
• Galician: procónsul m
• Greek: ανθύπατος (el) m (anthýpatos)

  Ancient: ἀνθύπατος m (anthúpatos)

• Italian: proconsole (it) m
• Latin: prōcōnsul m
• Portuguese: procônsul m
• Serbo-Croatian: prokonzul (sh) m
• Spanish: procónsul (es) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) prokonsulan, (♂) hiprokonsulan, (♀) jiprokonsulan

Further reading

• proconsul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin prōcōnsul.

Pronunciation

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Noun

proconsul m (plural proconsuls, feminine proconsule)

1. proconsul

Derived terms

• proconsulaire

Further reading

• “proconsul”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From prō + cōnsul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proːˈkon.sul/, [proːˈkõːs̠ʊɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈkon.sul/, [proˈkɔnsul]

Noun

prōcōnsul m (genitive prōcōnsulis); third declension

1. proconsul; a man who became governor of a province or a military commander with the authority of a consul
2. a governor in one of the provinces of the Roman Senate

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōcōnsul	prōcōnsulēs
genitive	prōcōnsulis	prōcōnsulum
dative	prōcōnsulī	prōcōnsulibus
accusative	prōcōnsulem	prōcōnsulēs
ablative	prōcōnsule	prōcōnsulibus
vocative	prōcōnsul	prōcōnsulēs

Derived terms

• prōcōnsulāris
• prōcōnsulātus

Related terms

• cōnsul
• cōnsulāris
• cōnsulāritās
• cōnsulāriter
• cōnsulārius
• cōnsulātus

Descendants

• Catalan: procònsol
• English: proconsul
• French: proconsul
• Galician: procónsul
• Italian: proconsole
• Portuguese: procônsul
• Russian: проконсул (prokonsul)
• Spanish: procónsul

References

• “proconsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proconsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proconsul in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• proconsul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “proconsul”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “proconsul”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin proconsul.

Noun

proconsul m (plural proconsuli)

1. proconsul

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	proconsul	proconsulul		proconsuli	proconsulii
genitive-dative	proconsul	proconsulului		proconsuli	proconsulilor
vocative	proconsulule			proconsulilor