conciliabulum

Latin

Etymology

From concili(ā) (“to unite; to bring together”) +‎ -bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.ki.liˈaː.bu.lum/, [kɔŋkɪlʲiˈäːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.t͡ʃi.liˈa.bu.lum/, [kon̠ʲt͡ʃiliˈäːbulum]

Noun

conciliābulum n (genitive conciliābulī); second declension

1. place of assembly
2. district administrative center
3. marketplace

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	conciliābulum	conciliābula
genitive	conciliābulī	conciliābulōrum
dative	conciliābulō	conciliābulīs
accusative	conciliābulum	conciliābula
ablative	conciliābulō	conciliābulīs
vocative	conciliābulum	conciliābula

Descendants

• English: conciliabule
• French: conciliabule
• Italian: conciliabolo
• → Portuguese: conciliábulo (learned)
• Romanian: conciliabul
• Spanish: conciliábulo

References

• “conciliabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conciliabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conciliabulum 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)
• conciliabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “conciliabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin