secretariat

See also: secrétariat

English

Alternative forms

• secretariate

Etymology

From French secrétariat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛkɹəˈtɛəɹɪət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛkɹəˈtɛɹi.ət/

Noun

secretariat (plural secretariats)

1. The office or department of a government secretary.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.

Related terms

• secretary

Translations

the office or department of a government secretary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秘書處／秘书处 (zh) (mìshūchù), 書記處／书记处 (zh) (shūjìchù)

• Danish: sekretariat (da) n (also refers to the head office of political parties and some organizations)
• Dutch: ministerie (nl) n (government department), kabinet (nl) n (Belgium; personal staff and office of a member of government)
• French: secrétariat (fr) m
• Georgian: სამდივნო (samdivno)
• German: Sekretariat (de) n
• Hebrew: מזכירות (mazkirut)
• Hungarian: titkárság (hu)
• Ido: sekretariato (io)
• Indonesian: sekretariat (id)
• Irish: ardrúnaíocht f, rúnaíocht f, rúnaireacht f
• Italian: segretariato (it)
• Japanese: 事務局 (ja) (jimukyoku), 官房 (ja) (kanbō)
• Kazakh: хатшылық (xatşylyq)
• Malay: sekretariat
• Persian: دبیرخانه (fa) (dabirxâne)
• Polish: sekretariat (pl) m
• Portuguese: secretaria (pt) f
• Romanian: secretariat (ro) n
• Russian: секретариа́т (ru) m (sekretariát)
• Spanish: secretaría (es)
• Swahili: ukatibu (sw), sekretarieti
• Swedish: sekretariat (sv) n
• Tagalog: kalihiman
• Telugu: సచివాలయము (sacivālayamu)
• Vietnamese: văn phòng tổng thư ký, phòng bí thư, ban bí thư (vi)

a kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia

• Vietnamese: quốc vụ viện (vi)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétariat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.kre.ta.riˈat/

Noun

secretariat n (plural secretariate)

1. secretariat; office

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	secretariat	secretariatul		secretariate	secretariatele
genitive-dative	secretariat	secretariatului		secretariate	secretariatelor
vocative	secretariatule			secretariatelor

Related terms

• secret
• secretar, secretară

References

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