Console Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology 1
    • 1.1.1 Pronunciation
    • 1.1.2 Noun
      • 1.1.2.1 Translations
      • 1.1.2.2 Derived terms
      • 1.1.2.3 See also
  • 1.2 Etymology 2
    • 1.2.1 Pronunciation
    • 1.2.2 Verb
      • 1.2.2.1 Synonyms
      • 1.2.2.2 Derived terms
      • 1.2.2.3 Translations
• 2 French
  • 2.1 Verb
• 3 Italian
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Noun
    • 3.2.1 Related terms

English

Etymology 1

From French console (“a bracket”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒn.səʊl/, SAMPA: /"kQn.s@Ul/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑːn.soʊl/, SAMPA: /"kAn.soUl/

  • Audio (US)
    (file)

Noun

console (plural consoles)

1. A cabinet designed to stand on the floor.
2. A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
3. The keyboard and screen of a computer.
4. A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
5. (video games) A device dedicated to playing video games, set apart from arcade cabinets by its ability to change games.
6. (architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

Translations

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Derived terms

• console table

See also

• corbel

Etymology 2

From French consoler, from Latin consolari (“offer solace”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: kənsōlʹ, IPA: /kənˈsəʊl/, SAMPA: /k@n"s@Ul/
• (US) enPR: kənsōlʹ, IPA: /kənˈsoʊl/, SAMPA: /k@n"soUl/

  • Audio (US)
    (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Verb

to console (third-person singular simple present consoles, present participle consoling, simple past and past participle consoled)

1. (transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     "Do you remember, my friend, that I went to Tostes once when you had just lost your first deceased? I consoled you at that time. I thought of something to say then, but now—" Then, with a loud groan that shook his whole chest, "Ah! this is the end for me, do you see! I saw my wife go, then my son, and now to-day it's my daughter."

Synonyms

• comfort, solace

Derived terms

• consolable
• consolation
• consolatory
• consoler
• consoling
• consolingly

Translations

French

Verb

console

1. first-person singular present indicative of consoler.
2. third-person singular present indicative of consoler.
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of consoler.
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of consoler.
5. second-person singular imperative of consoler.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōnsul.

Noun

console m. (plural consoli)

1. consul

Related terms

• consolare
• consolato

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