From Middle English consul, from Old English consul, from Latin cōnsul.

• (British) enPR: kŏnʹsəl, IPA: /ˈkɒn.səl/
• (America) enPR: kŏnʹsəl, IPA: /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 or historical) 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 their country.
6. (obsolete) A high government official, generally either a coruler himself or a counsellor directly under the ruler.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii ↗:

     Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
     And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [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 ↗, 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

• consular
• consularity
• consulary
• consulate

• French: consul, consule
• German: Konsul, Konsulin
• Italian: console
• Portuguese: cônsul
• Russian: ко́нсул
• Spanish: cónsul

• Italian: console
• Portuguese: cônsul
• Russian: ко́нсул