concordat

See also: concordât

English

Etymology

From French concordat, from Latin concordatum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈkɔːdæt/

Noun

concordat (plural concordats)

1. A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
   • 1820, Theodore Lyman, The Political State of Italy:

     That eminent and independant statesman, Count Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit since the fall of the Bonapartes.

   • 1846, William Scott, The Christian Remembrancer:

     The Concordat of the See of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].

   • 2000, Bruno Kreisky, Matthew Paul Berg, The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice, page 486:

     Later, he also promoted a significant degree of reconciliation between the Austrian social democratic movement and the Roman Catholic Church through the negotiation of the 1960 Concordat.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 116:

     1527: when the cardinal comes back from France, he immediately begins ordering up banquets. French ambassadors are expected, to set the seal on his concordat.

Translations

agreement

• Esperanto: konkordato
• Finnish: konkordaatti (fi), valtiosopimus (fi)
• French: concordat (fr) m
• German: Konkordat (de) n
• Greek: κονκορδάτο (el) n (konkordáto)
• Indonesian: konkordat (id)
• Italian: concordato (it) m
• Polish: konkordat (pl) m
• Portuguese: concordata (pt) f
• Russian: конкорда́т (ru) m (konkordát)
• Spanish: concordato m
• Volapük: konkordat

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

concordat m (plural concordats)

1. concordat

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French concordat.

Noun

concordat n (plural concordate)

1. concordat

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	concordat	concordatul		concordate	concordatele
genitive-dative	concordat	concordatului		concordate	concordatelor
vocative	concordatule			concordatelor