Etymograph

English

consul

Consul comes from Latin cōnsul ‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to take’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*selh₁-‘to take’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsul‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic’
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150consul‘Roman consul’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500consul‘Roman consul’
  5. Englishearliest quotation c. 1587–1588consul

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*selh₁-‘to take’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsul‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic’
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150consul‘Roman consul’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500consul‘Roman consul’
  5. Englishearliest quotation c. 1587–1588consul

Earliest quotation: c. 1587–1588, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […]: “Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to take’

sale, sell, council, counsel, consigliere, 4 more

Today it means

noun Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- / consul

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