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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French conclave, from Latin conclāve (“room that may be locked up”), from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + clāvis (“key”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
conclave (plural conclaves)
- (Roman Catholicism) A closed meeting in which the elector cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose a new pope.
- 1685 March 4 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22, 1684–5”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567, page 327:
- [W]e find it once said of an eminent Cardinal, by reaſon of his great and apparent Likelihood to ſtep into St. Peter’s Chair, that in tvvo Conclaves he vvent in Pope, and came out again Cardinal.
- 2013 February 27, Laurie Goodstein, “Now Gathering in Rome, a Conclave of Fallible Cardinals”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
- His exit came as at least a dozen other cardinals tarnished with accusations that they had failed to remove priests accused of sexually abusing minors were among those gathering in Rome to prepare for the conclave to select a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
- (Roman Catholicism) The set of apartments in which the elector cardinals are secluded while a conclave takes place.
- 1884, John Sherren Brewer, James Gairdner, editor, The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey […] , volume 1, page 442:
- Two hours before nightfall, the whole body met again in a chapel within the conclave […]
- (Roman Catholicism) The group of cardinals involved in a conclave.
- (by extension) A private meeting; a closed or secret assembly.
- 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:
- The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 104:
- Therefore the safe return of the Roper party was the usual topic of our nightly conclaves in the verandah.
- 2014 January 19, Larry Elliott; Jill Treanor, “Davos faces up to weak growth and rising inequality”, in The Guardian[2]:
- More than 2,500 of globalisation's movers and shakers gather for their annual four-day mountaintop conclave this week, aware that the world is still being shaken by the events of half a decade ago.
Derived terms[edit]
- in conclave (“engaged in a secret meeting”)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
meeting to select a new pope
group of cardinals
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set of apartments within which the cardinals are secluded
private and secret meeting
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Further reading[edit]
papal conclave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Asturian[edit]
Noun[edit]
conclave m (plural conclaves)
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /koŋˈkla.və/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kuŋˈkla.bə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /koŋˈkla.ve/
Noun[edit]
conclave m (plural conclaves)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
conclave m (plural conclaves)
Further reading[edit]
- “conclave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
conclave m (plural conclavi)
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈklaː.u̯e/, [kɔŋˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈkla.ve/, [koŋˈkläːve]
Noun[edit]
conclāve n (genitive conclāvis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | conclāve | conclāvia |
Genitive | conclāvis | conclāvium |
Dative | conclāvī | conclāvibus |
Accusative | conclāve | conclāvia |
Ablative | conclāvī | conclāvibus |
Vocative | conclāve | conclāvia |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: conclave
- English: conclave
- French: conclave
- Italian: conclave
- Portuguese: conclave
- Russian: конкла́в (konkláv)
- Spanish: cónclave
References[edit]
- “conclave”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conclave”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conclave 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)
- conclave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “conclave”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “conclave”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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