conclave

See also: cónclave

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French conclave, from Latin conclāve (“room that may be locked up”), from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + clāvis (“key”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒn.ˈkleɪv/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.kleɪv/
• Rhymes: (UK) -eɪv

Noun

conclave (plural conclaves)

1. (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.

2. (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 […]

3. (Roman Catholicism) The group of cardinals involved in a conclave.
4. (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

• in conclave (“engaged in a secret meeting”)

Related terms

• clave
• clavis

Translations

meeting to select a new pope

group of cardinals

• Armenian: կոնկլավ (hy) (konklav)
• Bulgarian: конклав m (konklav)
• Catalan: conclave (ca) m, conclau m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樞機團／枢机团 (shūjītuán)

• Esperanto: konklavo
• Finnish: konklaavi (fi)
• French: conclave (fr)
• German: Konklave (de) n
• Ido: konklavo (io)
• Irish: comhthionól cairdinéal m
• Italian: conclave (it) m
• Kazakh: конклав (konklav)
• Latin: conclāve n
• Russian: конкла́в (ru) m (konkláv)
• Spanish: cónclave (es) m
• Welsh: conclaf m

set of apartments within which the cardinals are secluded

• Esperanto: konklavo
• Finnish: konklaavi (fi)
• French: conclave (fr)
• German: Konklave (de) n
• Ido: konklavo (io)
• Irish: comhthionól cairdinéal m

private and secret meeting

• Catalan: conclave (ca) m, conclau m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祕密會議／秘密会议 (mìmì huìyì)

• German: Klausurtagung (de) f, Klausur (de) f
• Irish: tionól rúnda m
• Kazakh: конклав (konklav)
• Spanish: cónclave (es) m

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} conclaaf (nl) n

Further reading

• papal conclave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Noun

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /koŋˈkla.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kuŋˈkla.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koŋˈkla.ve/

Noun

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

   Synonym: conclau

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.klav/

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Noun

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

Further reading

• “conclave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈkla.ve/

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• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: con‧clà‧ve

Noun

conclave m (plural conclavi)

1. conclave

Derived terms

• conclavista

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ clāvis (“key”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈklaː.u̯e/, [kɔŋˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈkla.ve/, [koŋˈkläːve]

Noun

conclāve n (genitive conclāvis); third declension

1. room, chamber
2. enclosed space that can be locked
3. dining hall

Declension

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

• Catalan: conclave
• English: conclave
• French: conclave
• Italian: conclave
• Portuguese: conclave
• Russian: конкла́в (konkláv)
• Spanish: cónclave

References

• “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