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Latin
Etymology
con- (“with”) + calō (“I call, announce solemnly, call out”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
concilium n (genitive conciliī or concilī); second declension
- a council
- Synonym: contio
- a meeting
- Synonyms: congressus, coetus, concursus, coitiō, conventus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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- ^ Euren, S. F. (1896) chapter 2, in Étude sur l'r français, Upsala: Imprimerie Almquist & Wiksell, page 22
- “concilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concilium 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)
- concilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to summon an assembly of the people: convocare populi concilium and populum ad concilium
- to fix the day for, to hold, to dismiss a meeting: concilium indicere, habere, dimittere
- “concilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concilium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “concilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin