different between counsellor vs consul

English

Noun

counsellor (plural counsellors)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of counselor

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nsul.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?l/

Noun

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) 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 his or her country.
6. (obsolete) A counsellor.

Synonyms

• (count): See count
• (councillor): See councillor
• (early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia): capitoul (Toulouse)
• (counsellor): See counsellor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• ambassador

References

Anagrams

• UNCLOS, clonus, cluons

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch consul, from Latin c?nsul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nz?l/
• Hyphenation: con?sul

Noun

consul m (plural consuls)

1. consul (official in foreign country)
2. (historical) consul (of the Roman Republic)

Derived terms

• consulaat

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.syl/

Noun

consul m (plural consuls, feminine consule)

1. consul, in its various senses.

Synonyms

• (early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia): échevin; capitoul (Toulouse)

Related terms

• consulaire
• consulat

Descendants

• ? Thai: ????? (gong-s?n)
• ? Turkish: konsül

Further reading

• “consul” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• culons

Latin

Alternative forms

• (in oblique cases): c?nsul. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From earlier consol. Root noun to c?nsul?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.sul/, [?kõ?s????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.sul/, [?k?nsul]

Noun

c?nsul m (genitive c?nsulis); third declension

1. consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic, elected annually
   • 63 B.C.E., Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     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? "

2. a proconsul
3. the highest magistrate in other states
4. an epithet of the god Jupiter
5. (Medieval Latin) a municipal official.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

• consul in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• consul in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consul in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• consul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• consul in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• consul in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “console” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ?ISBN
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “consulo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 131

Norman

Etymology

From Latin c?nsul (“consul”).

Noun

consul m (plural consuls)

1. (Jersey) consul

Related terms

• consulat (“consulate”)

Romanian

Etymology

From French consul

Noun

consul m (plural consuli)

1. consul

Declension