cónsul

See also: consul and cônsul

Galician

Etymology

From Latin cōnsul.

Noun

cónsul m (plural cónsules, 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)

Further reading

• “cónsul” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cónsul”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cōnsul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkonsul/ [ˈkõn.sul]
• Rhymes: -onsul
• Syllabification: cón‧sul

Noun

cónsul m or f by sense (plural cónsules)

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)

Related terms

• consulado

 

Further reading

• “cónsul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28