console

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To comfort someone who is sad or disappointed.

   She tried to console her friend after the bad news.

2. 2
   noun

   A panel or unit with controls and displays for operating a system.

   The engineer adjusted the settings on the control console.

3. 3
   noun

   A storage compartment between the front seats of a car.

   Could you put my phone in the centre console?

Borrowed from French consoler, from Latin cōnsōlor (“to console, offer solace”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”) (whence also solace).

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