consultum

A substantivisation of the neuter forms of cōnsultus (“consulted”), the perfect passive participle of cōnsulō (“I consult, reflect, or take counsel”, “I meet, consider, or deliberate”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈsul.tum/, [kõːˈsʊɫ.tũ]

cōnsultum n (genitive cōnsultī); second declension

1. a response by an oracle to the consultation or inquiry of a deity
2. a decree, decision, resolution, plan, action taken, or measure adopted

Second declension.

• cōnsultē
• cōnsultō
• senātūscōnsultum

• consultum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• consultum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consultum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• consultum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 412/3
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to send and consult the oracle at Delphi: mittere Delphos consultum
    
  • a resolution of the senate (not opposed by a tribunicial veto) was made: senatus consultum fit (Att. 2. 24. 3)