consultation

English

Etymology

From Middle French consultation, from Latin consultatio. Morphologically consult +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsəlˈteɪʃən/, [ˌkɒnsɫ̩ˈteɪʃn̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, [ˌkɑnsɫ̩ˈteɪʃn̩]
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsəlˈteɪʃən/, [ˌkɒnsɫ̩ˈteɪʃn̩]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnsəlˈtæɪʃən/, [ˌkɔnsɫ̩ˈtæɪʃn̩]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsəlˈtæɪʃən/, [ˌkɔ̟nsɫ̩ˈtæɪʃn̩]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: con‧sul‧ta‧tion

Noun

consultation (countable and uncountable, plural consultations)

1. The act of consulting.
   • 1958 August, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 517:

     Plans were prepared under the auspices of the L.S.W.R. by W. R. Galbraith and R. F. Church, with J. F. Greathead in consultation, for a deep-level electric line on the tube principle, 1½ miles long, from a point under the main-line terminus at Waterloo to the eastern end of Queen Victoria Street, […] .

   • 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.

2. A conference for the exchange of information and advice.
   • 1974 April 6, Linda Thurston, “U.S. Civil Rights Conference--Heterosexuals Only”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

     Last month I went to a "consultation" on racism and sexism sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. It was the first of a series of five conferences designed to bring people together fighting racism and sexiam ^[sic] to discuss […]

3. An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor.

Derived terms

• consultational
• interconsultation
• postconsultation
• preconsultation
• reconsultation
• teleconsultation
• videoconsultation

Translations

act of consulting

• Arabic: مُشَاوَرَة f (mušāwara), اِسْتِشَارَة f (istišāra), مُدَاوَلَة f (mudāwala)
• Armenian: խորհրդատվություն (hy) (xorhrdatvutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: məsləhətləşmə, müşavirə (az), konsultasiya
• Belarusian: кансульта́цыя f (kansulʹtácyja)
• Bulgarian: консулта́ция (bg) f (konsultácija)
• Catalan: consulta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會診 / 会诊 (zh) (huìzhěn), 磋商 (zh) (cuōshāng), 諮詢 / 谘询 (zh) (zīxún)

• Czech: konzultace (cs) f
• Danish: konsultation (da) c
• Dutch: consultatie (nl) f, samenspraak (nl)
• Estonian: konsultatsioon (et), nõupidamine
• Finnish: konsultaatio (fi), neuvonpito (fi), neuvottelu (fi)
• French: consultation (fr) f
• Georgian: კონსულტაცია (ḳonsulṭacia)
• German: Beratung (de) f, Konsultation (de) f
• Greek: διαβούλευση (el) f (diavoúlefsi)
• Hindi: परामर्श (hi) m (parāmarś), मशविरा (hi) m (maśvirā)
• Hungarian: konzultáció (hu), tanácskozás (hu)
• Indonesian: konsultasi (id)
• Italian: consultazione (it) f
• Japanese: 相談 (ja) (そうだん, sōdan), 協議 (ja) (きょうぎ, kyōgi), 商議 (ja) (しょうぎ, shōgi)
• Javanese: sarawèdi (jv)
• Kazakh: мәслихат (mäsliyxat)
• Korean: 협의 (ko) (hyeobui), 상의 (ko) (sang'ui), 상담 (ko) (sangdam)
• Kyrgyz: консультация (konsultatsiya)
• Latvian: konsultācija f
• Lithuanian: konsultacija f
• Macedonian: консултација f (konsultacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsultasjon m

  Nynorsk: konsultasjon m

• Persian: مشاوره (fa) (mošâvere), مشورت (fa) (mašvarat), مصلحت (fa) (maslahat)
• Polish: konsultacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: consulta (pt)
• Romanian: consultare (ro) f, consultație (ro) f
• Russian: консульта́ция (ru) f (konsulʹtácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конзулта́ција f

  Latin: konzultácija (sh) f

• Slovak: konzultácia f
• Slovene: konzultacija f
• Spanish: consulta (es) f
• Swedish: samhälle (sv) n, konsultation (sv) c
• Tajik: машварат (mašvarat), маслиҳат (tg) (maslihat)
• Thai: การปรึกษา (th) (gaan-bprʉ̀k-sǎa), การหารือ (th) (gaan-hǎa-rʉʉ)
• Turkish: meşveret (tr), müşavere (tr), konsültasyon (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مشورت (meşveret), قونسولتو (konsolto)

• Ukrainian: консульта́ція f (konsulʹtácija)
• Urdu: مصلحت f (maslahat), مشورت f (maśvarat), مشورہ m (maśvirā)
• Uzbek: maslahat (uz), mashvarat (uz), konsultatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự tham khảo (vi)

a conference for the exchange of information and advice

• Polish: narada (pl) f
• Spanish: consultación f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: مشورت (meşveret), قونسولتو (konsolto)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsultātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

consultation f (plural consultations)

1. consultation, consulting
2. survey, poll

Related terms

• consulter

Further reading

• “consultation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012