senatus consultum

American  

[se-nah-toos kawn-sool-toom, suh-ney-tuhs kuhn-suhl-tuhm] / sɛˈnɑ tʊs kɔnˈsʊl tʊm, səˈneɪ təs kənˈsʌl təm /

noun

Latin.

plural

senatus consulta

1. a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.

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senatus consultum British  

/ səˈnɑːtəs kənˈsʊltəm /

noun

1. a decree of the Senate of ancient Rome, taking the form of advice to a magistrate

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Example Sentences

Later, ratification was granted according to ancestral precedent to the resolution in question, and the latter obtained the name of senatus consultum.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

In the third century before our era, a Roman could say audibo or audiam, contemplor or contemplo, senatus consultum or senati consultum.

From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost

A part of the territory of Liguria and Cisalpine Gaul was confiscated and a senatus consultum ordered a distribution of this land to the commons.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew

Within three days a senatus consultum was ready recommending the desired change to another plebiscite.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

The senatus consultum of the 16th of Thermidor, year 10, named Bonaparte consul for life.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron