proconsularis Latin · revision 34155

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la prōcōnsul}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [proː.kõː.sʊˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pro.kon.suˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōcōnsulāris''' (neuter prōcōnsulāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ The Code and Novels of Justinian also have a form ''prōcōnsulārius''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prōcōnsul|-āris|t1=proconsul]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL record it first in Livy,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who has ''prōcōnsulāris imāgō'', which Georges explains as a mere shadow of consular power, said of the military tribunes who had taken the consuls' place.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of or belonging to a [[m|en|proconsul]], as in ''prōcōnsulāre imperium'', proconsular command, and ''prōcōnsulāris vir'', a proconsul.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero or Caesar;^(Lewis & Short 1879) the TLL finds it once or twice each in Livy, Valerius Maximus, Fronto and Gellius, eight times in Tacitus, more often in the ''Historia Augusta'' and the Theodosian Code, and in verse only in Martianus Capella.^(TLL) The epitome of Livy writes that Pompey was sent against Sertorius ''cum imperiō prōcōnsulārī'', and the jurist Ulpian that a proconsul has the proconsular insignia everywhere as soon as he has left the city.^(TLL) ''Prōvincia prōcōnsulāris'', in inscriptions, is the province of Africa.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Augustine has ''gesta prōcōnsulāria'', the records of a proconsul's court.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) The word passed into Greek,^(TLL) and Italian has ''proconsolare'' from it.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has ''prōcōnsulāris imāgō''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it eight times.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius has ''imperium prōcōnsulāre''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian writes of the proconsular insignia.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine has ''gesta prōcōnsulāria''.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to a [[m|en|proconsul]], [[m|en|proconsular]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''prōcōnsulāris (vir)'': a proconsul.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[prōcōnsul]]

+ * [[cōnsulāris]]

+ * [[cōnsul]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}