presidium

See also: présidium

English

Alternative forms

• praesidium

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian прези́диум (prezídium), from Latin praesidium. Doublet of praesidium and presidio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪdi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

presidium (plural presidia or presidiums)

1. A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess. [1920]
2. Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.

Related terms

• presidio

Translations

executive committee

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: тӧрги (törgi)

• Armenian: նախագահություն (hy) (naxagahutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: prezidium
• Belarusian: прэзі́дыум m (prezídyum), прэзы́дыум m (prezýdyum)
• Bulgarian: прези́диум (bg) m (prezídium)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主席團 / 主席团 (zh) (zhǔxítuán)

• Czech: předsednictvo (cs) n, prezidium n
• Danish: præsidium n
• Dutch: presidium (nl) n
• Estonian: presiidium
• Finnish: puhemiehistö (fi), puheenjohtajisto
• French: présidium (fr) m
• Georgian: პრეზიდიუმი (ṗrezidiumi)
• German: Präsidium (de) n
• Greek: προεδρείο (el) n (proedreío)
• Hungarian: elnökség (hu), prezídium (hu)
• Japanese: 幹部会 (かんぶかい, kanbukai)
• Kazakh: төралқа (töralqa)
• Khmer: គណៈប្រធាន (kĕəʼnaʼ prɑthiən)
• Korean: 간부회(幹部會) (ganbuhoe)
• Kyrgyz: президиум (prezidium)
• Latvian: prezidijs m
• Lithuanian: prezidiumas m
• Macedonian: президиум m (prezidium), претседателство n (pretsedatelstvo)
• Manx: ard-choyrle
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: presidium n

• Pannonian Rusyn: предсидательство n (predsidatelʹstvo)
• Polish: prezydium n
• Romanian: prezidiu (ro) n
• Russian: прези́диум (ru) m (prezídium)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́дседнӣштво n, пре́дсједнӣштво n

  Latin: prédsednīštvo n, prédsjednīštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: prezídium n
• Slovene: predsedstvo n
• Spanish: presídium (es) m
• Swedish: presidium (sv) n
• Thai: เปรซิเดียม, คณะผู้บริหารสูงสุด
• Ukrainian: прези́дія (uk) f (prezýdija)
• Uzbek: prezidium (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ tịch đoàn, đoàn chủ tịch

References

Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedia
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997

Anagrams

• peridiums

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch presidium, from Russian прези́диум (prezídium), from Latin praesidium.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /presiˈdium/ [pre.siˈdi.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: pre‧si‧di‧um

Noun

presidium (plural presidium-presidium)

1. (politics) presidium

Alternative forms

• presedium

Further reading

• “presidium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Variant in transliteration of Russian прези́диум (prezídium), borrowed from German Präsidium, borrowed from Latin praesidium. Doublet of presidio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /preˈzi.djum/
• Rhymes: -idjum
• Hyphenation: pre‧sì‧dium

Noun

presidium m (uncountable)

1. administrative department, head office

   Synonyms: direzione, presidenza

Further reading

• presidium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

presidium n (definite singular presidiet, indefinite plural presidier, definite plural presidia or presidiene)

1. presidency
2. presidium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

presidium n (definite singular presidiet, indefinite plural presidium, definite plural presidia)

1. presidency
2. presidium

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin praesidium. Attested since circa 1655.

Noun

presidium n

1. presidium
2. chairmanship

Declension

Declension of presidium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	presidium	presidiums
	definite	presidiet	presidiets
plural	indefinite	presidier	presidiers
	definite	presidierna	presidiernas

References

• “presidium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “presidium”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “presidium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)