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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•con•sul (prō kon′səl),USA pronunciation n. - Ancient History[Rom. Hist.]an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- Governmentany appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.
- Latin prōconsul; see pro-1, consul
- Middle English 1350–1400
- Physical Anthropologyan African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- Neo-Latin (1933), equivalent. to pro- pro-1 + Consul, allegedly the name of a chimpanzee in a London zoo (with a pun on Latin prōconsul proconsul); the genus was thought to be ancestral to the chimpanzee
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: proconsul /prəʊˈkɒnsəl/ n - an administrator or governor of a colony, occupied territory, or other dependency
- (in ancient Rome) the governor of a senatorial province
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin, from prō consule (someone acting) for the consul. See pro-², consulproconsular /prəʊˈkɒnsjʊlə/ adj |