noun · masculinethird declension
cōnsul
cōnsul m (genitive cōnsulis)
Classical[ˈkõː.sʊɫ]Ecclesiastical[ˈkɔn.sul]
№ 321 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic, elected annually
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? "63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations: - a proconsul
- the highest magistrate in other states
- an epithet of the god Jupiter
- Medieval Latina municipal official.
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
summus magistrātus Rōmānus; duo cōnsulēs in annum creantur.cōnsul -is m — in Mille Verba, Urbs et Aedificia
consul
cōnsul -is — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25 and Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 19
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnsul | cōnsulēs |
| genitive | cōnsulis | cōnsulum |
| dative | cōnsulī | cōnsulibus |
| accusative | cōnsulem | cōnsulēs |
| ablative | cōnsule | cōnsulibus |
| vocative | cōnsul | cōnsulēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- bis consul
- twice consul.
- consulem creare
- to elect a consul.
- iterum, tertium consul
- consul for the second, third time.
- comitiis consulem creari
- to be chosen consul at the elections.
- pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci
- to go to Cilicia as pro-consul.
- sextum (Pis. 9. 20), septimum consul
- consul for the sixth, seventh time.
- aliquem consulem declarare (Leg. Agr. 2. 2. 4)
- to declare a person consul-elect.
- augures obnuntiant (consuli) (Phil. 2. 33. 83)
- the augurs announce an unfavourable sign.
2 more phrases
- aliquem consulem renuntiare (De Or. 2. 64. 260)
- to offically proclaim (by the praeco, herald) a man elected consul; to return a man consul.
- videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
- let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state.
consul (in the oldest inscrr. CONSOL, COSOL; abbrev. COS., also in plur. COSS., not before the time of the emperors), ŭlis, m. prob. from root sal- of salio; Sanscr. sar-, go; hence also exsul, praesul, v. Corss. Ausspr. II. p. 71,
I. a consul, one of the two highest magistrates of the Roman state, chosen annually, after the expulsion of the kings; cf. concerning his election, administration, duties, etc., Dict. Antiq., and the authors there cited (freq. in all periods and species of composition): qui recte consulat, consul cluat, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 80 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 8; Quint. 1, 6, 32; Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 136: consul ordinarius, one who entered on his office at the regular time, viz. on the first of January; opp. consul suffectus, one chosen in the course of the year in the place of one who had died, or, after the time of the emperors, as a mere honorary title; v. ordinarius and sufficio: consul designatus, consul elect (so called in the interval between election, at the beginning of August, and entrance on his duties, on the 1st of January), v. designo: consul major, one who had the largest number of votes, or with whom the Fasces were, or one who was oldest (acc. to Nieb., orig. he who was of noble origin); cf. Fest. s. v. majorem consulem, p. 161, 31 Müll.;
after the Lex Julia, who had most children, Gell. 2, 15, 4: consulem creare, Cic. Att. 9, 9, 3; Caes. B. C. 3, 1 al.: dicere, Liv. 27, 6, 3: facere, Cic. Agr. 2, 1, 3; id. de Or. 2, 66, 268: sufficere, id. Mur. 38, 82 al.: declarare, id. Agr. 2, 2, 4 al.: renuntiare, id. Mur. 1, 1 al.: aliquem consulem designare, Amm. 21, 12, 25: esse pro consule, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 91, § 212 al. In reference to the expression bis, iterum, ter, quater, etc.; tertio or tertium, etc, consul, v. the words bis, iterum, etc., and cf. Gell. 10, 1, 3 and 6.—B. Esp.
1. In abl. with the names of the consuls (in the poets usu. of one consul), for the designation of the year: Orgetorix M. Messalá M. Pisone Coss., regni cupiditate inductus, etc., in the consulship of (i. e. in the year of Rome 693), Caes. B. G. 1, 2: is dies erat a. d. V. Kal. Apr. L. Pisone A. Gabinio Coss. (i. e. the 27th of March, 696 of the city), id. ib. 1, 6 fin.:
Romam venit Mario consule et Catulo, Cic. Arch. 3, 5; id. Brut. 43, 161 al.: amphora fumum bibere instituta Consule Tullo, Hor. C. 3, 8, 12; 3, 14, 28; 3, 21, 1; id. Epod. 13, 6 al.; cf.: Bibuli consulis amphora, id. C. 3, 28, 8: amphora centeno consule facta minor, i. e. a hundred years old, Mart. 8, 45, 4.—2. Sing., as collective term for the magistracy, the consuls, when the office is in view rather than the persons: quod populus in se jus dederit, eo consulem usurum;
non ipsos (sc. consules) libidinem ac licentiam suam pro lege habituros, Liv. 3, 9, 5 Weissenb. ad loc.: legatisque ad consulem missis, id. 21, 52, 6 Heerw. ad loc.: aliter sine populi jussu nullius earum rerum consuli jus est, Sall. C. 29, 3.—II. Meton.
A. A proconsul, Liv. 26, 33, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. id. § 7; 31, 49, 4; Nep. Cato, 1, 3; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 6, 3, 2; Flor. 2, 14, 5; Eutr. 3, 14.—
B. The highest magistrate in other states:
consul Tusculanorum, Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 136: BARCINONENSIS, Inscr. Grut. 4, 29, 9: COLONLAE ASTIGITANAE, ib. 351, 5; Aus. Clar. Urb. 14, 39.—C. An epithet of Jupiter, Vop. Firm. 3; App. de Mundo, c. 25.—*
D. Poet.:
est animus tibi ... consul non unius anni, continually fulfilling the duties of the highest magistracy, Hor. C. 4, 9, 39 Orell. ad loc.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
cōnsul ulis, m
com-+2 SAL-, a consul; the highest magistracy of the Roman republic was vested in two consuls, chosen annually: ordinarius, for the full term (opp. suffectus, to fill a vacancy), L.: designatus, elect: consules creantur, Cs.: me consulem fecistis: ne sufficiatur consul, chosen to fill a vacancy: Consulis imperium, V.— In dates, defining the year; usu. abl absol.: Messalā et Pisone consulibus, in the consulship of, Cs.: a. d. V Kal. Apr. L. Pisone A. Gabinio consulibus (i. e. the 28th of March), Cs.: nobis consulibus: Consule Tullo, H.: Bibuli consulis amphora, H.: XL annis ante me consulem: ante vos consules: post L. Sullam Q. Pompeium consules. — Sing collect., the consuls, supreme magistracy: eo (iure) consulem usurum, L.: legatisque ad consulem missis, L.: nullius earum rerum consuli ius est, S.—In the title, pro consule (abbrev. procos.), plur. pro consulibus, a vice-consul, deputy-consul, magistrate with consular powers; orig. given to a general sent to command an army: pro consule Quinctium subsidio castris mitti, L.: non oportere mitti privatum pro consule. — Also, to a consul whose military command was prolonged beyond his term of office: ut cum Philo consulatu abisset, pro consule rem gereret, L. — After Sulla's time, the consuls, when their year expired, assumed the chief magistracy in provinces designated by the senate, as pro consulibus: litterae a Bruto pro consule: ex litteris Bruti pro consule: qui pro consulibus sint ad urbem, Cs.; see also proconsul. —A proconsul: mortuus Claudius consul erat, L.: quaestor obtigit (Cato) consuli, N. — Poet.: non unius anni, i. e. not by election, but by nature, H.
Origins
From earlier consol. Root noun to cōnsulō.
Elsewhere
- Englishconsulfrom Old English consul
- Frenchconsul
- Romanianconsulfrom French consul
- GermanKonsul
- Italianconsole
- Occitancossèlfrom Old Occitan cossel
- Portuguesecônsul
- Spanishcónsul
- Czechkonšel
- Scotsconsulfrom Old English consul
Old Francoprovençal
- Franco-Provençalcoússol
- Franco-Provençalcoússel