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/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

consultant (plural consultants)

1. A person or party that is consulted.

   Coordinate terms: consultee, referrer

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
• consultantese
• consultantship
• e-consultant
• image consultant
• insultant
• investment consultant
• nonconsultant
• teleconsultant

 

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
• Greek: σύμβουλος (el) m or f (sýmvoulos)
• Hebrew: יוֹעֵץ (he) m (yo'éts)
• Hungarian: tanácsadó (hu), szaktanácsadó (hu), szakértő (hu), specialista (hu), (at a publishing house) lektor (hu), szaklektor, (for a thesis) konzulens (hu), témavezető (hu)
• Indonesian: konsulen (id), konsultan (id)
• Ingrian: nevvoja
• Italian: consulente (it) m
• Japanese: 顧問 (ja) (こもん, komon), 相談役 (ja) (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, →OCLC.

References

• consultant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.sulˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.sulˈtant]
• Rhymes: -ant

Verb

consultant

1. gerund of consultar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: consultants

Adjective

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

1. consulting

Noun

consultant m (plural consultants, feminine consultante)

1. (archaic) counselee, advisee (person who solicits advice from a professional)
   1. (archaic) patient (person who solicits medical advice, who sees a doctor)

      Near-synonym: patient

2. consultant (person who offers advice in a professional capacity)

Participle

consultant

1. present participle of consulter

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cōnsultant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of cōnsultō

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

consultant m (plural consultants)

1. (Jersey) consultant

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French consultant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.sulˈtant/

Noun

consultant m (plural consultanți, feminine equivalent consultantă)

1. consultant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	consultant	consultantul		consultanți	consultanții
genitive-dative	consultant	consultantului		consultanți	consultanților
vocative	consultantule			consultanților

Related terms

• consultanță

Further reading

• consultant in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)