English
consultation
Consultation comes from Latin consultatio ‘deliberation, consideration, consultation’, and goes back to cōnsultō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsultō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconsultatio‘deliberation, consideration, consultation’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600consultation
- Englishearliest quotation 1958same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsultō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEconsultatio‘deliberation, consideration, consultation’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600consultation
- Englishearliest quotation 1958same form
Earliest quotation: 1958, T. S. Lascelles, Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway: “Plans were prepared under the auspices of the L.S.W.R.…”
Formed from consult + -ation
Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to take, grab’
Latin cōnsulō ‘to consult, seek counsel from, take counsel from’
Latin cōnsultus ‘consulted’
Latin cōnsultum ‘a response by an oracle to the consultation…’
Middle French consulter
English consult
Every English word from Latin cōnsultō
Today it means
noun The act of consulting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cōnsultō / consultation