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.

Translations

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Latin prōcōnsul.

Pronunciation

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Noun

proconsul m (plural proconsuls, feminine proconsule)

  1. proconsul

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From prō + cōnsul.

Pronunciation

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōcōnsul prōcōnsulēs
Genitive prōcōnsulis prōcōnsulum
Dative prōcōnsulī prōcōnsulibus
Accusative prōcōnsulem prōcōnsulēs
Ablative prōcōnsule prōcōnsulibus
Vocative prōcōnsul prōcōnsulēs

Derived terms

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

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