consul
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
consul (plural consuls)
- (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.
- (historical) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
- (obsolete) A count or earl.
- (obsolete) A councillor, particularly:
- (historical) A member of early modern city councils in southern France and Catalonia.
- (historical) An officer of the trading and merchant companies of early modern England.
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A counsellor.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii], page 312 ↗, column 1:
- And many of the Conſuls, rais'd and met,
Are at the Dukes already.
- 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], OCLC 1006139495 ↗, Iob 3:14, page 1065 ↗:
- With kinges and conſules of the earth, which build themſelves ſolitarie places:
- (count) See count
- (councillor) See councillor
- (early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia) capitoul (Toulouse)
- (counsellor) See counsellor
- French: consul, consule
- German: Konsul, Konsulin
- Italian: console
- Portuguese: cônsul
- Russian: ко́нсул
- Spanish: cónsul
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