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- Latin · borrowed fromcōnsōlātus
- English todayconsolate
First attested in 1477, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātus, perfect active participle of cōnsōlor, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of console.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.