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English
Etymology
From Latin prōcōnsul.
Pronunciation
Noun
proconsul (plural proconsuls)
- (in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.
Translations
in ancient Rome: a magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province
Further reading
French
Etymology
From Latin prōcōnsul.
Pronunciation
Noun
proconsul m (plural proconsuls, feminine proconsule)
- proconsul
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From prō + cōnsul.
Pronunciation
Noun
prōcōnsul m (genitive prōcōnsulis); third declension
- proconsul; a man who became governor of a province or a military commander with the authority of a consul
- a governor in one of the provinces of the Roman Senate
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “proconsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proconsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proconsul in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- proconsul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “proconsul”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “proconsul”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin proconsul.
Noun
proconsul m (plural proconsuli)
- proconsul
Declension