consiliator

Forms

cōnsiliātor m (genitive cōnsiliātōris, feminine cōnsiliātrīx); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin cōnsilior (“to take counsel; to advise”) + -tor.^[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its first author is Phaedrus, who speaks of an evil counsellor, cōnsiliātor maleficus.^[4][3][5]

Semantic evolution

The TLL treats it as a synonym of cōnsiliārius.^[3] Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan and rare.^[4] Petronius has a Greek called Serapa, “counsellor of the gods”;^[3][4] Pliny the Younger calls a man his counsellor and guide in holding office;^[3][4] Apuleius speaks of a good counsellor; and an inscription gives it as an epithet of Jupiter.^[3][4]

In medieval sources Köbler finds it in the Lombard laws, in Thietmar of Merseburg and in charters.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus speaks of an evil counsellor.^[4][3][5]
• before 66 AD – Petronius calls Serapa a counsellor of the gods.^[3][5]
• c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius speaks of a good counsellor.^[4][5]
• 1012–1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg uses it.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. An adviser, counsellor; a sharer in someone's counsels.^[2][4][3]
2. An epithet of Jupiter in an inscription.^[4]

Related words

• cōnsilium
• cōnsiliārius

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de