concilium

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

con- (“with”) +‎ calō (“I call, announce solemnly, call out”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈki.li.um/, [kɔŋˈkɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.li.um/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːlium]

Noun

concilium n (genitive conciliī or concilī); second declension

1. a council
2. a meeting

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	concilium	concilia
Genitive	conciliī concilī1	conciliōrum
Dative	conciliō	conciliīs
Accusative	concilium	concilia
Ablative	conciliō	conciliīs
Vocative	concilium	concilia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• conciliō

See also

• cōnsilium

Descendants

• → Catalan: concili
• Corsican: cunzigghiu
• → Old French: concile, cuncile
  • → English: council
  • French: concile
• Italian: concilio
• Old Galician-Portuguese: concello
  • Galician: concello
    • → Spanish: concello
  • Portuguese: concelho

• → Portuguese: concílio
• → Romanian: conciliu
• → Russian: конси́лиум (konsílium)
• Spanish: concejo
• → Spanish: concilio

References

• “concilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concilium 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)
• concilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to summon an assembly of the people: convocare populi concilium and populum ad concilium
    
  • to fix the day for, to hold, to dismiss a meeting: concilium indicere, habere, dimittere
    
• “concilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concilium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “concilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin