conclave

Borrowed from French conclave, from Latin conclave (“room that may be locked up”), from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + clāvis (“key”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.kleɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.kleɪv/

conclave (plural conclaves)

1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
2. The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
   • Robert South

     It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.

3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
   • Thomas Babington Macaulay

     The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.

• in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.

• clave
• clavis

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /koŋˈkla.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kuŋˈkla.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koŋˈkla.ve/

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

• conclau

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.klav/

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

• IPA^(key): /konˈklave/

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conclave m (plural conclavi)

1. conclave

• conclavista

From con- +‎ clāvis (key).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈklaː.we/, [kɔŋˈkɫaː.wɛ]

conclāve n (genitive conclāvis); third declension

1. room, chamber
2. enclosed space that can be locked
3. dining hall

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

• Catalan: conclave
• English: conclave
• French: conclave
• Italian: conclave
• Portuguese: conclave
• Russian: конкла́в (konkláv)
• Spanish: cónclave

• conclave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conclave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conclave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conclave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• conclave in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conclave in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave