English
consular
Consular comes from Latin cōnsulāris ‘of or pertaining to a consul’, and goes back to cōnsul.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsul‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsulāris‘of or pertaining to a consul’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500consular
- Englishearliest quotation 1612same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsul‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsulāris‘of or pertaining to a consul’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500consular
- Englishearliest quotation 1612same form
Earliest quotation: 1612, Samuel Danyel, The First Part of the Historie of England: “And reordring the gouernment therof, for a future security,…”
Equivalent to consul + -ar
Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to take’
Latin cōnsul ‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking…’
Old English consul ‘Roman consul’
Middle English consul ‘Roman consul’
English consul
Linked words
through Latin cōnsul ‘consul: either of the two highest-ranking…’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to a consul, or the office thereof.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cōnsul / consular