English

Senior Counsel

From senior + counsel.

Proto-Indo-European *sénos ‘old’

Proto-Italic *seneks

Latin senex ‘old’

Latin senior ‘older’

Middle English senior

Latin calō

Latin cōnsilium ‘counsel, advice’

Old French conseil ‘piece of advice’

Middle English counseil ‘a church council’

Today it means

noun An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Senior Counsel