Proconsul

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

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proconsul
prō-consul (also separately, prō consŭle; v. pro, II. B. 2.; and abbreviated, procos.), is, m. I O...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
proconsul
prō-cōnsul is, m a governor of a province, military commander, proconsul (usu. sent out from Rome a...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Proconsul
(for, or in place of, the consul). At the division of the provinces by Augustus, in the year B.C. 27...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary