consulate

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Etymology

From Middle English consulat, consulate, from Latin consulātus, from consul +‎ -ātus. In some senses, via French consulat. By surface analysis, consul +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnsjʊlət/, /ˈkɒnsələt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsəlɪt/, /ˈkɑnsələt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

consulate (plural consulates)

1. Rule by consuls, as during most periods of the Roman Republic or in France between 1799 and 1804.
2. The office of a consul, in its various senses.
3. The term of office of a consul.
4. The business office of a consul; a minor embassy.
5. (obsolete) Any town or city council.

Synonyms

• (rule): capitoulate (historical, Toulouse)
• (office and term of office): consulship; capitoulate (historical, Toulouse)

Derived terms

• consulate general
• honorary consulate

Related terms

• consul

Translations

the residency of a consul

Afrikaans: konsulaat Albanian: konsullatë (sq) f Arabic: قُنْصُلِيَّة f (qunṣuliyya) Armenian: հյուպատոսություն (hy) (hyupatosutʻyun) Asturian: consuláu m Azerbaijani: konsulxana Belarusian: ко́нсульства n (kónsulʹstva) Bengali: বাণিজ্যদূতাবাস (banijjodutabaś) Bulgarian: ко́нсулство n (kónsulstvo) Burmese: ကောင်စစ်ဝန်ရုံး (my) (kaungcac-wanrum:) Catalan: consolat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 使館 / 使馆 (zh) (shǐguǎn), 領事館 / 领事馆 (zh) (lǐngshìguǎn) Czech: konzulát (cs) m Danish: konsulat n Dutch: consulaat (nl) n Esperanto: konsulejo (eo) Estonian: konsulaat Finnish: konsulaatti (fi) French: consulat (fr) m Galician: consulado m Georgian: საკონსულო (saḳonsulo) German: Konsulat (de) n Greek: προξενείο (el) n (proxeneío) Hebrew: קוֹנְסוּלְיָה (he) f (konsulia) Hindi: वाणिज्य दूतावास (vāṇijya dūtāvās), कांसुलेट (kānsuleṭ) Hungarian: konzulátus (hu) Icelandic: ræðisskrifstofa f, konsúlat n Indonesian: konsulat (id) Irish: consalacht Italian: consolato (it) m Japanese: 領事館 (ja) (りょうじかん, ryōjikan) Kazakh: консулдық (konsuldyq) Khmer: ស្ថានកុងស៊ុល (km) (sthaan kongsul) Korean: 영사관(領事館) (ko) (yeongsagwan) Kyrgyz: консульство (konsulstvo) Lao: ສະຖານກົງສຸນ (sa thān kong sun) Latvian: konsulāts m Lithuanian: konsulatas m Macedonian: конзула́т m (konzulát), конзулство n (konzulstvo) Malay: konsulat Maltese: konsulat m Mongolian: консулын газар (konsulyn gazar) Norman: consulat m Norwegian: konsulat n Persian: کنسولگری (fa) (konsulgari) Polish: konsulat (pl) m Portuguese: consulado (pt) m Romanian: consulat (ro) n Russian: ко́нсульство (ru) n (kónsulʹstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: конзу̀ла̄т m Roman: konzùlāt (sh) m Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovak: konzulát m Slovene: konzulat (sl) m Spanish: consulado (es) m Swedish: konsulat (sv) n Tagalog: konsulado Tajik: консули (konsul-i), консулгари (konsulgar-i) Tatar: консуллык (qonsullıq) Telugu: కాన్సులేట్ (kānsulēṭ‌) Thai: สถานกงสุล (sà-tǎan-gong-sǔn) Turkish: konsolosluk (tr) Turkmen: konsulhana, konsullyk Ukrainian: ко́нсульство n (kónsulʹstvo) Urdu: قونصل خانہ (qōnsul xāna) Uzbek: konsulxona (uz), konsullik (uz) Vietnamese: tòa lãnh sự Volapük: konsulöp (vo)

an office of a government, comparable to an embassy

Azerbaijani: konsulluq Bulgarian: консулство n (konsulstvo) Chinese: Mandarin: 領事館 / 领事馆 (zh) (lǐngshìguǎn) French: consulat (fr) German: Konsulat (de) n Spanish: consulado (es) m Swedish: konsulat (sv) Thai: สถานกงสุล (sà-tǎan-gong-sǔn)

See also

• embassy

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "consulate, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1893.

Anagrams

• cleanouts, cleans out, sulcatone