console

See also consolé

English

Etymology 1

From French console (“a bracket”)

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

Noun

console (plural consoles)

1. A cabinet designed to stand on the floor, especially one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.
2. A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
3. The keyboard and screen of a computer or other electronic device.
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

Translations

• Bulgarian: конзола (bg) (konzola)
• Finnish: konsoli (fi)
• French: console (fr) f

• German: Konsole (de) f
• Hebrew: קונסולה (he) (consola)
• Romanian: consolă (ro) f

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• Korean: 컨솔박스 (konsolbox), 위로하다 (weerohada)

Derived terms

• console table

See also

• corbel

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Verb

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

to comfort

• Albanian: ngushëlloj (sq)
• Arabic: واسى (ar) (waasaa), عزى (ar) (ghazzaa), سلى (ar) (sallaa)
• Bulgarian: утешавам (bg) (utešavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安慰 (cmn) (ānwèi), 寬慰 (cmn), 宽慰 (cmn) (kuānwèi)

• Czech: utěšit (cs)
• Dutch: troosten (nl), vertroosten (nl)
• Esperanto: konsoli (eo)
• French: consoler (fr)
• German: trösten (de)
• Japanese: 慰める (ja) (なぐめる, nagumeru), 労る (ja) (いたわる, itawaru)

• Latin: alloquor (la)
• Luxembourgish: tréischten (lb)
• Polish: pocieszać / pocieszyć
• Portuguese: consolar (pt)
• Russian: утешать (ru) (utešát') impf., утешить (ru) (utéšit') pf., успокаивать (ru) (uspokáivat') impf., успокоить (ru) (uspokóit') pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: утешити (sh), utješiti (sh)
• Slovak: uteší (sk)
• Spanish: consolar (es)
• Swedish: trösta (sv)

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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

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōnsul.

Noun

console m (plural consoli)

1. consul

Related terms

• consolare
• consolato

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Jèrriais

Noun

console f (plural consoles)

1. Russian comfrey (Symphytum × uplandicum)

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Portuguese

Verb

console

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of consolar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of consolar
3. third-person singular imperative of consolar