Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 423.cōnsul on page 423
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cōnsul consul
cōnsul is a Latin Noun that primarily means consul.
Definitions for cōnsul
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
consul
English derivatives:
consular consulate consulship
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
One of the two highest magistrates at Rome, consul. (b) used loosely of a consul elect or proconsul. (c) (usu attrib.) proconsul; (normally of an ex-consul whose imperium was extended while he performed the function of provincial governor, etc.). (d) the supreme magistrate elsewhere than at Rome.
- 2
As consuls were elected annually the names of the consuls served to denote the year; hence in var. expr., esp. abl. absol.
- 3
(w. ref. to supposed etym. connexion w. consulo).
Sentences with cōnsul
Latin to English
Cum cōnsul haec verba dīxisset, senātus respondit pecūniam ad hanc rem collātam esse.Compare When the consul had spoken these words, the senate replied that money had been brought together for this purpose.
Cōnsulī nōn crēdent quī opera turpia faciat.Compare They will not trust a consul who would do base deeds.
Cicerō erat cōnsul quī rem pūblicam salūtī suae antepōneret.Compare Cicero was a consul who place the state before his own safety.
Scīvērunt quārē cōnsulem tam fortem sequī vellēmus.Compare They knew why we wanted to follow such a brave consul.
Amīcus meus quī cōnsulem dēfendit ipse erat vir clārissimus.Compare My friend who defended the consul was himself a very famous man.
Cōnsul tertium decimum sexāgēnos dēnāriōs plēbēi quae tum frūmentum pūblicum accipiēbat dedī; ea mīllia hominum paullō plūra quam dūcenta fuērunt. (Res gestae divi Augusti 15)Compare In my thirteenth consulship I gave 60 denarii each to the plebs who were then receiving public grain; this made up a few more than 200,000 people
Nec quotus annus est, nec quo sit nata require consule; quae rigidus munera censor habet.Compare Ask not how old she is, nor under what consul she was born; these are the duties of the stern Censor.
At Romae ruere in servitium consules, patres, eques: quanto quis illustrior, tanto magis falsi ac festinantes, vultuque composito, ne laeti excessus principis, neu tristiores primordio, lacrimas, gaudium, questus adulationem miscebant.Compare Meanwhile at Rome people plunged into slavery - consuls, senators, knights. The higher a man's rank, the more eager his hypocrisy, and his looks the more carefully studied, so as neither to betray joy at the decease of one emperor nor sorrow at the rise of another, while he mingled delight and lamentations with his flattery.
Declension table for cōnsul
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | cōnsul | cōnsulēs |
| Gen. | cōnsulis | cōnsulum |
| Dat. | cōnsulī | cōnsulibus |
| Acc. | cōnsulem | cōnsulēs |
| Abl. | cōnsule | cōnsulibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 71.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 423.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "cōnsul, cōnsulis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 30, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/consul-consulis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 71.cōnsul, cōnsulis on page 71
