consistorium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnsistō (“stop, stand”) +‎ -tōrium (place suffix).

Noun

cōnsistōrium n (genitive cōnsistōriī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) a place of assembly
  2. (Late Latin) the emperor’s cabinet
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) consistory (pontifical court; session of the College of Cardinals)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cōnsistōrium cōnsistōria
genitive cōnsistōriī cōnsistōriōrum
dative cōnsistōriō cōnsistōriīs
accusative cōnsistōrium cōnsistōria
ablative cōnsistōriō cōnsistōriīs
vocative cōnsistōrium cōnsistōria

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: concistoro
  • Sicilian: cuncisturu
  • → Catalan: consistori
  • → Dutch: consistorie
  • → Old French: consistoire
  • → German: Konsistorium
  • → Hungarian: konzisztórium
  • → Portuguese: consistório
  • → Spanish: consistorio

References

  • “consistorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "consistorium", 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)
  • consistorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “consistorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “consistorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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