consulate

English

Etymology

From Middle English consulat, consulate, from Latin consulātus, from consul +‎ -ātus (“-ate”). In some senses, via French consulat.

Pronunciation

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

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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

Derived terms

• consulate general
• honorary consulate, honourary consulate

Related terms

• consul

Translations

the residency of a consul

• Afrikaans: konsulaat
• Albanian: konsullatë (sq) f
• Arabic: قُنْصُلِيَّة‎ f (qunṣuliyya)
• Armenian: հյուպատոսություն (hy) (hyupatosutʿyun)
• Asturian: consuláu m
• Azerbaijani: konsulxana
• Belarusian: ко́нсульства n (kónsulʹstva)
• Bengali: বাণিজ্যদূতাবাস (baṇijyodūtabas)
• 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 (konsulʹstvo)
• 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 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 (konsuli), консулгари (konsulgari)
• 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)
• French: consulat (fr)
• German: Konsulat (de) n
• Spanish: consulado (es) m
• Swedish: konsulat (sv)

See also

• embassy

References

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

Anagrams

• cleanouts, cleans out, sulcatone