consiliator
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Pronunciation
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
- An adviser, counsellor; a sharer in someone's counsels.[2][4][3]
- An epithet of Jupiter in an inscription.[4]
Related words
References
- ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de