consultor Latin · revision 33838

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõːˈsʊɫ.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [konˈsul.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsultor''' ''m'' (genitive cōnsultōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnsulō|-tor|t1=to deliberate, consult]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|cōnsulō]] to [[itc-pro|*kom-se/ol-e/o-|t=to consult]], from [[ine-pro|*s(e)lh₁-e/o-|t=to take]], cognate with [[grc|εἷλον|tr=heîlon|t=took]], and thinks it first meant to get together, deliberate.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short quote it first from Afranius, preserved by Nonius, of one who deliberates on something.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a counsellor or adviser: Gellius quotes a popular verse that bad advice is worst for the adviser,^(OLD 2012) and Lewis & Short find this sense several times in Sallust but rare elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also one who consults: the client of a lawyer, as Cicero says of rising at night to answer clients,^(OLD 2012) and one who consults an oracle or astrologer, as in Lucan.^(OLD 2012) Servius and a scholiast on Horace explain it as one who asks for advice.^(TLL) Stelten gives “counselor, adviser”, and Niermeyer a town counsellor in Medieval Latin.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius, of one who deliberates.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of an adviser.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a lawyer's clients.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|counsellor]], [[m|en|adviser]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # One who consults: the [[m|en|client]] of a lawyer; one who consults an oracle.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A town counsellor.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsulō]]

+ * [[cōnsul]]

+ * [[cōnsilium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}