proconsul

See also: Proconsul

English

Etymology

From Latin prōcōnsul.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəʊˈkɒn.səl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈkɑn.səl/

Noun

proconsul (plural proconsuls)

  1. (in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province

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French

Noun

proconsul m (plural proconsuls, feminine proconsule)

  1. proconsul

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From prō + cōnsul.

Pronunciation

Noun

prōcōnsul m (genitive prōcōnsulis); third declension

  1. proconsul; a man who became governor of a province or a military commander following a term as consul
  2. an ex-praetor made governor of a small province
  3. a governor in one of the provinces of the Roman Senate

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative procōnsul procōnsulēs
genitive procōnsulis procōnsulum
dative procōnsulī procōnsulibus
accusative procōnsulem procōnsulēs
ablative procōnsule procōnsulibus
vocative procōnsul procōnsulēs

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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, 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
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