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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [proː.kõː.sʊˈɫaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [pro.kon.suˈlaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''prōcōnsulātus''' ''m'' (genitive prōcōnsulātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|prōcōnsul|-ātus|t1=proconsul]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains [[m|la|cōnsul|t=consul]] as a noun made to the verb [[m|la|cōnsulō|t=to deliberate, consult]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*kom-se/ol-e/o-|t=to consult]] and [[ine-pro|*s(e)lh₁-e/o-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|εἷλον|tr=heîlon|t=I took]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler records it first in Pliny the Elder.^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan and cite Pliny, Tacitus and Pliny the Younger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means the office or rank of a proconsul, the proconsulship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Suetonius uses it once of a propraetorship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In inscriptions it is abbreviated, from the late 3rd century on, as ''proc'', ''procos'' or ''procons''.^(TLL) In medieval British Latin John of Salisbury uses it of the office of a justiciar.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, the office of proconsul.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, in the ''Annals''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of a propraetorship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The office or rank of a [[prōcōnsul]], [[m|en|proconsulship]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A [[m|en|propraetorship]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The office of a [[m|en|justiciar]].^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[cōnsulātus]]
+ * [[prōcōnsul]]
+ * [[prōcōnsulāris]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}