consultant

consultant

English

Etymology

From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsʌl.tənt/

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Noun

consultant (plural consultants)

1. A person or party that is consulted.
2. A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
3. (medicine, UK, Ireland) A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.

Derived terms

• chainsaw consultant
• consultantship
• e-consultant
• image consultant
• investment consultant
• nonconsultant

 

Related terms

• consult
• consultancy
• consultation
• consultative
• consulter

 

Translations

person or party that is consulted

Albanian: këshillues (sq) m, Arabic: مُسْتَشَار‎ m (mustašār), مُسْتَشَارَة‎ f (mustašāra) Azerbaijani: konsultant, məsləhətçi (az), müşavir (az) Belarusian: кансульта́нт m (kansulʹtánt), кансульта́нтка f (kansulʹtántka) Bulgarian: консулта́нт (bg) m (konsultánt), консулта́нтка f (konsultántka) Chinese: Cantonese: 顧問, 顾问 (gu3 man6) Mandarin: 顧問／顾问 (zh) (gùwèn) Czech: konzultant (cs) m, konzultantka f, poradce (cs) m, poradkyně (cs) f Danish: konsulent (da) c Dutch: consulent (nl) m Finnish: konsultti (fi) French: consultant (fr) m, consultante (fr) f German: Berater (de) m, Beraterin (de) f Hebrew: יוֹעֵץ‎ (he) m (yo'éts) Hungarian: tanácsadó (hu), szaktanácsadó, szakértő (hu), specialista (hu), (at a publishing house) lektor (hu), szaklektor, (for a thesis) konzulens (hu), témavezető Indonesian: konsulen (id), konsultan (id) Italian: consulente (it) m Japanese: 顧問 (ja) (こもん, komon), 相談役 (そうだんやく, sōdan'yaku), コンサルタント (ja) (konsarutanto) Kazakh: кеңесші (keñesşı) Korean: 상담가(相談家) (sangdamga), 자문 위원(諮問委員) (jamun wiwon), 컨설턴트 (keonseolteonteu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: şêwirmend (ku) Latvian: konsultants m, konsultante f Maori: mātanga, mātanga hāpai Norman: consultant m (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: rådgiver (no) m Persian: مشاور‎ (fa) (mošâver) Polish: konsultant m, konsultantka f, doradca (pl) m, doradczyni (pl) f Portuguese: consultor (pt) m Romanian: consultant (ro) m, consultantă (ro) f Russian: консульта́нт (ru) m (konsulʹtánt), консульта́нтка (ru) f (konsulʹtántka) Slovak: konzultant m, konzultantka f, poradca m, poradkyňa f Spanish: consultor m Swedish: konsult (sv) c Tagalog: kasangguni Turkish: danışman (tr), müşavir (tr) Ukrainian: консульта́нт m (konsulʹtánt), консульта́нтка f (konsulʹtántka) Zazaki: şewêrmend m

Further reading

• consultant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

References

• consultant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.sulˈtant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.sulˈtan/
• Rhymes: -ant

Verb

consultant

1. present participle of consultar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/

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• Homophone: consultants

Adjective

consultant (feminine consultante, masculine plural consultants, feminine plural consultantes)

1. consulting

Noun

consultant m (plural consultants, feminine consultante)

1. consultant

Participle

consultant

1. present participle of consulter

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈsul.tant/, [kõːˈs̠ʊɫ̪t̪än̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsul.tant/, [konˈsul̪t̪än̪t̪]

Verb

cōnsultant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of cōnsultō

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

consultant m (plural consultants)

1. (Jersey) consultant

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Romanian

Etymology

From French consultant.

Noun

consultant m (plural consultanți)

1. consultant

Declension

Declension of consultant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) consultant	consultantul	(niște) consultanți	consultanții
genitive/dative	(unui) consultant	consultantului	(unor) consultanți	consultanților
vocative	consultantule		consultanților