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Latin
Etymology
From cōnsulō + -ium. Compare cōnsidium.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōnsilium n (genitive cōnsiliī or cōnsilī); second declension
- plan, intention, design, purpose
- Synonyms: voluntās, intentiō, propositum, fīnis, animus, mēns
- capere consilium/ inire consilium ― to take a resolution, to determine to perform a plan
- counsel, advice
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.8.12:
- ego sapientia habitō in cōnsiliō et ērudītīs intersum cōgitātiōnibus
- I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- determination, resolve, resolution
- council, advisory body
- judgment, wisdom
- measure (i.e., course of action)
- device, stratagem (esp. in battle)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “consilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consilium 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)
- consilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
- to give up a project, an intention: consilio desistere
- to let a plan fall through: consilium abicere or deponere
- to be deterred from one's intention by something: a consilio deterreri aliqua re
- to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
- to alter one's views, intentions: consilium, sententiam mutare
- to go one's own way, proceed independently: suo consilio uti
- (1) to communicate one's plans to some one; (2) to make common cause with a person. Similarly c. causam, rationem: consilia cum aliquo communicare
- to take common counsel: consilia inter se communicare
- to consult a person, take his advice: aliquem in or ad consilium adhibere
- to deliberate together (of a number of people): consilium habere (de aliqua re)
- to be present at secret consultations: consiliis arcanis interesse (Liv. 35. 18)
- to give a person advice: consilium dare alicui
- to give a person the advantage of one's advice (and actual support): aliquem consilio (et re) iuvare
- I put myself at your disposal as regards advice: consilii mei copiam facio tibi
- to apply to a person for advice: consilium petere ab aliquo
- to be perplexed: consilii inopem esse
- advice is useless in this case; the situation is very embarrassing: omnia consilia frigent (Verr. 2. 25)
- without reflection; inconsiderately; rashly: nullo consilio, nulla ratione, temere
- I am undecided..: incertus sum, quid consilii capiam
- to abide by one's resolution: propositum, consilium tenere (opp. a proposito deterreri)
- to persevere in one's resolve: in proposito susceptoque consilio permanere
- to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
- my intention is..: consilium est c. Inf. or ut
- with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut
- to make virtue the standard in every thought and act: omnia consilia et facta ad virtutem referre (Phil. 10. 10. 20)
- to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
- thought and deed: consilia et facta (cf. sect. X. 1, note For 'thoughts and deeds'...)
- statesmen: auctores consilii publici
- a man's policy is aiming at, directed towards..: alicuius in re publica or capessendae rei publicae consilia eo spectant, ut...
- a political ally: consiliorum in re publica socius
- the council of the nation; the senate: publicum consilium (Phil. 7.7. 19)
- to hold a council of war: consilium habere, convocare
- to refer a matter to a council of war: rem ad consilium deferre
- “consilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “consilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin