cônsul

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See also: consul and cónsul

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)

  1. consul (official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country)
  2. (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)
  3. (historical) consul (any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804)