consultant

English

Etymology

From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈsʌl.tənt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɐl.tənt/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈkən.səl.ʈenʈ/

Noun

consultant (plural consultants)

1. A person or party that is consulted.

   Coordinate terms: consultee, referrer

2. A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
3. (medicine, UK, Ireland) A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.

Derived terms

• chainsaw consultant
• consultantese
• consultantship
• e-consultant
• image consultant
• insultant
• investment consultant
• nonconsultant
• teleconsultant

Related terms

• consult
• consultancy
• consultation
• consultative
• consulter

Translations

person or party that is consulted

• Albanian: këshillues (sq) m,, konsulent m
• Arabic: مُسْتَشَار m (mustašār), مُسْتَشَارَة f (mustašāra)
• Azerbaijani: konsultant, məsləhətçi (az), müşavir (az)
• Bashkir: кәңәшсе (kəñəşse)
• Belarusian: кансульта́нт m (kansulʹtánt), кансульта́нтка f (kansulʹtántka), дара́дца m (darádca)
• Bengali: চিকিত্সক (cikitśok), পরামর্শকারী (poramorśokari)
• Bulgarian: консулта́нт (bg) m (konsultánt), консулта́нтка f (konsultántka)
• Burmese: အတိုင်ပင်ခံ (my) (a.tuingpanghkam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 顧問 / 顾问 (gu³ man⁶)

  Mandarin: 顧問 / 顾问 (zh) (gùwèn)

• Czech: konzultant (cs) m, konzultantka f, poradce (cs) m, poradkyně (cs) f
• Danish: konsulent (da) c
• Dutch: consulent (nl) m
• Estonian: konsultant, nõuandja
• Finnish: konsultti (fi)
• French: consultant (fr) m, consultante (fr) f
• German: Berater (de) m, Beraterin (de) f
• Greek: σύμβουλος (el) m or f (sýmvoulos)
• Hebrew: יוֹעֵץ (he) m (yo'éts)
• Hindi: मंत्री (hi) m (mantrī), सलाहकार (hi) m (salāhkār), परामर्शदाता m (parāmarśadātā)
• Hungarian: tanácsadó (hu), szaktanácsadó (hu), szakértő (hu), specialista (hu), (at a publishing house) lektor (hu), szaklektor, (for a thesis) konzulens (hu), témavezető (hu)
• Indonesian: konsulen (id), konsultan (id)
• Ingrian: nevvoja
• Italian: consulente (it) m
• Japanese: 顧問 (ja) (こもん, komon), 相談役 (ja) (そうだんやく, sōdan'yaku), コンサルタント (ja) (konsarutanto)
• Kazakh: кеңесші (keñesşı)
• Khmer: ទីប្រឹក្សា (tii prəksaa), អ្នកជូនយោបល់ (nĕək cuun yoobɑl)
• Korean: 상담가(相談家) (sangdamga), 자문 위원(諮問委員) (jamun wiwon), 컨설턴트 (keonseolteonteu), 고문(顧問) (ko) (gomun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şêwirmend (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кеңешчи (keŋeşci), консультант (konsultant)
• Lao: ທີ່ປຶກສາ (thī pưk sā)
• Latvian: konsultants m, konsultante f, padomnieks m, padomniece f
• Lithuanian: konsultantas m, konsultantė f, patarėjas m, patarėjė f
• Macedonian: консулта́нт m (konsultánt), консулта́нтка f (konsultántka)
• Malay: perunding
• Māori: mātanga, mātanga hāpai
• Norman: consultant m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rådgiver (no) m, konsulent m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مُشاوِر (mošâver), مُسْتَشار (mostašâr), ناصِح (nâseh)

• Polish: konsultant (pl) m, konsultantka f, doradca (pl) m, doradczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: consultor (pt) m
• Romanian: consultant (ro) m, consultantă (ro) f
• Russian: консульта́нт (ru) m (konsulʹtánt), консульта́нтка (ru) f (konsulʹtántka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са́ветнӣк m, са́вјетнӣк m, са́ветница f, са́вјетница f

  Latin: sávetnīk m, sávjetnīk (sh) m, sávetnica f, sávjetnica (sh) f

• Slovak: konzultant m, konzultantka f, poradca m, poradkyňa f
• Slovene: svetovalec m, svetovalka f
• Spanish: consultor (es) m
• Swedish: konsult (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasangguni
• Tajik: мушовир (mušovir), машваратчӣ (mašvaratči), мусташор (mustašor)
• Tatar: киңәшче (tt) (kiñäşçe)
• Thai: ที่ปรึกษา (th) (tîi-bprʉ̀k-sǎa)
• Turkish: danışman (tr), müşavir (tr)
• Turkmen: geňeşçi, maslahatçy
• Ukrainian: консульта́нт m (konsulʹtánt), консульта́нтка f (konsulʹtántka)
• Urdu: مُشاوِر m (muśāvir), صَلاح کار m (salāh kār), مُسْتَشار m (mustaśār), ناصِح m (nāsih)
• Uyghur: مەسلىھەتچى (meslihetchi)
• Uzbek: maslahatchi (uz), konsultant (uz)
• Vietnamese: người tư vấn
• Yiddish: קאָנסולטאַנט m (konsultant)
• Zazaki: şewêrmend m

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consultant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

References

• consultant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.sulˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.sulˈtant]
• Rhymes: -ant

Verb

consultant

1. gerund of consultar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Homophone: consultants

Adjective

consultant (feminine consultante, masculine plural consultants, feminine plural consultantes)

1. consulting

Noun

consultant m (plural consultants, feminine consultante)

1. (archaic) counselee, advisee (person who solicits advice from a professional)
   1. (archaic) patient (person who solicits medical advice, who sees a doctor)

      Near-synonym: patient

2. consultant (person who offers advice in a professional capacity)

Participle

consultant

1. present participle of consulter

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈsʊɫ.tant]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈsul.tant]

Verb

cōnsultant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of cōnsultō

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

consultant m (plural consultants)

1. (Jersey) consultant

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French consultant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.sulˈtant/

Noun

consultant m (plural consultanți, feminine equivalent consultantă)

1. consultant

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	consultant	consultantul	consultanți	consultanții
genitive-dative	consultant	consultantului	consultanți	consultanților
vocative	consultantule		consultanților

Related terms

• consultanță

Further reading

• “consultant”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026