Meaning of cōnsilium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. plan, intention, design, purpose
   declension-2
2. counsel, advice
   declension-2
3. determination, resolve, resolution
   declension-2
4. council, advisory body
   declension-2
5. judgment, wisdom
   declension-2
6. measure (i.e., course of action)
   declension-2
7. device, stratagem (esp. in battle)
   declension-2

Equivalents

Examples

“capere consilium/ inire consilium”

to take a resolution, to determine to perform a plan

“Malum est cōnsilium, quod mūtārī nōn potest.”

Bad is the plan, which can not be changed.

“Cōnsilium cēperunt ex oppidō profugere”

Adopted a design to flee from the town

“ego sapientia habitō in cōnsiliō et ērudītīs intersum cōgitātiōnibus”

I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

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