cônsul
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsul.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.suw/ [ˈkõ.suʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkõ.sul/ [ˈkõ.suɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -õsul, (Brazil) -õsuw
- Hyphenation: côn‧sul
Noun
cônsul m (plural cônsules, feminine consulesa, feminine plural consulesas)
- consul (official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country)
- (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)
- (historical) consul (any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804)
Related terms
Further reading
- “cônsul”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “cônsul”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026