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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsul.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -õsul, (Brazil) -õsuw
- Hyphenation: côn‧sul
Noun
cônsul m (plural cônsules, feminine consulesa, feminine plural consulesas)
- consul (official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country)
- (historical) consul (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) consul (any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804)