proconsul
英 [prəʊ'kɒns(ə)l]
美[pro'kɑnsl]
- n. （古罗马）地方总督；（英）殖民地总督
英英释义
- 1. an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
- 2. a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
- 3. an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
双语例句
- 1. For a time Octavian was consul, then proconsul and eventually a tribune.
- 屋大维曾做了一段时间的执政官, 然后是总督,最后是保民官.
来自英汉非文学 - 文明史
英文词源
- proconsul (n.)
- late 14c., "governor or military commander of an ancient Roman province," from Latin proconsul "governor of a province; military commander," from phrase pro consule "(acting) in place of a consul," from pro- "in place of" (see pro-) + ablative of consul. In modern use usually rhetorical, but it was a title of certain commissioners in the French Revolution, was used in English for "deputy consul," and was used again of U.S. administrators in Iraq during the occupation. Related: Proconsular.