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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnsistōrium	cōnsistōria
Genitive	cōnsistōriī	cōnsistōriōrum
Dative	cōnsistōriō	cōnsistōriīs
Accusative	cōnsistōrium	cōnsistōria
Ablative	cōnsistōriō	cōnsistōriīs
Vocative	cōnsistōrium	cōnsistōria

Derived terms

• cōnsistōriālis
• cōnsistōriānus

Descendants

• Italian: concistoro
• Sicilian: cuncistoru
• → Catalan: consistori
• → Dutch: consistorie
  • → Indonesian: konsistori
• → Old French: consistoire
  • → Middle English: consistorie
    • English: consistory
  • French: consistoire
    • →? Romanian: consistoriu
• → 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