consistorium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cōnsistō (“stop, stand”) + -tōrium (place suffix).
Noun[edit]
cōnsistōrium n (genitive cōnsistōriī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a place of assembly
- (Late Latin) the emperor’s cabinet
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) consistory (pontifical court; session of the College of Cardinals)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnsistōrium | cōnsistōria |
| Genitive | cōnsistōriī | cōnsistōriōrum |
| Dative | cōnsistōriō | cōnsistōriīs |
| Accusative | cōnsistōrium | cōnsistōria |
| Ablative | cōnsistōriō | cōnsistōriīs |
| Vocative | cōnsistōrium | cōnsistōria |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: concistoro
- Sicilian: cuncistoru
- → Catalan: consistori
- → Dutch: consistorie
- → Indonesian: konsistori
- → Old French: consistoire
- → Middle English: consistorie
- English: consistory
- French: consistoire
- →? Romanian: consistoriu
- → Middle English: consistorie
- → German: Konsistorium
- → Hungarian: konzisztórium
- → Portuguese: consistório
- → Spanish: consistorio
References[edit]
- “consistorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- consistorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- consistorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “consistorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “consistorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin