consulter

English

Etymology

consult +‎ -er

Noun

consulter (plural consulters)

1. One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

Related terms

• consultant, consultor

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “consulter” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• reconsult

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French

Etymology

From Latin consulto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.te/

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Verb

consulter

1. to consult

   Demain matin, j'irai consulter mon médecin. Tomorrow morning I am going to consult my doctor.

2. to refer to

Conjugation

Conjugation of consulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consulter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	consultant /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		consulté /kɔ̃.syl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultes /kɔ̃.sylt/	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultons /kɔ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	consultez /kɔ̃.syl.te/	consultent /kɔ̃.sylt/
	imperfect	consultais /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultais /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultait /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/	consultions /kɔ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	consultiez /kɔ̃.syl.tje/	consultaient /kɔ̃.syl.tɛ/
	past historic2	consultai /kɔ̃.syl.te/	consultas /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consulta /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consultâmes /kɔ̃.syl.tam/	consultâtes /kɔ̃.syl.tat/	consultèrent /kɔ̃.syl.tɛʁ/
	future	consulterai /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	consulteras /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	consultera /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	consulterons /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	consulterez /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	consulteront /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consulterais /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterais /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterait /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	consulterions /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	consulteriez /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁje/	consulteraient /kɔ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultes /kɔ̃.sylt/	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	consultions /kɔ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	consultiez /kɔ̃.syl.tje/	consultent /kɔ̃.sylt/
	imperfect2	consultasse /kɔ̃.syl.tas/	consultasses /kɔ̃.syl.tas/	consultât /kɔ̃.syl.ta/	consultassions /kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃/	consultassiez /kɔ̃.syl.ta.sje/	consultassent /kɔ̃.syl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	consulte /kɔ̃.sylt/	—	consultons /kɔ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	consultez /kɔ̃.syl.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• consultation

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

cōnsulter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsultō