presidium

See also: présidium

English

Alternative forms

• praesidium

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian прези́диум (prezídium), from Latin praesidium. Doublet of praesidium and presidio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪdi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

presidium (plural presidia or presidiums)

1. A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess. [1920]
2. Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.

Related terms

• presidio

Translations

executive committee

• Armenian: նախագահություն (hy) (naxagahutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: prezidium
• Belarusian: прэзі́дыум m (prezídyum), прэзы́дыум m (prezýdyum)
• Bulgarian: прези́диум (bg) m (prezídium)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主席團 / 主席团 (zh) (zhǔxítuán)

• Czech: předsednictvo (cs) n, prezidium n
• Dutch: presidium (nl) n
• Estonian: presiidium
• Finnish: puhemiehistö (fi), puheenjohtajisto
• French: présidium (fr) m
• Georgian: პრეზიდიუმი (ṗrezidiumi)
• German: Präsidium (de) n
• Greek: προεδρείο (el) n (proedreío)
• Hungarian: elnökség (hu)
• Japanese: 幹部会 (かんぶかい, kanbukai)
• Kazakh: төралқа (töralqa)
• Khmer: គណៈប្រធាន (kĕəʼnaʼ prɑthiən)
• Korean: 간부회(幹部會) (ganbuhoe)
• Kyrgyz: президиум (prezidium)
• Latvian: prezidijs m
• Lithuanian: prezidiumas m
• Macedonian: президиум m (prezidium), претседателство n (pretsedatelstvo)
• Manx: ard-choyrle
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: presidium n

• Polish: prezydium n
• Romanian: prezidiu (ro) n
• Russian: прези́диум (ru) m (prezídium)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́дседнӣштво n, пре́дсједнӣштво n

  Roman: prédsednīštvo n, prédsjednīštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: prezídium n
• Slovene: predsedstvo n
• Southern Altai: тӧрги (törgi)
• Spanish: presídium (es) m
• Swedish: presidium (sv) n
• Thai: เปรซิเดียม, คณะผู้บริหารสูงสุด
• Ukrainian: прези́дія (uk) f (prezýdija)
• Uzbek: prezidium (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ tịch đoàn, đoàn chủ tịch

References

Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedia
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997

Anagrams

• peridiums

Italian

Etymology

Variant in transliteration of Russian прези́диум (prezídium), borrowed from German Präsidium, borrowed from Latin praesidium. Doublet of presidio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /preˈzi.djum/
• Rhymes: -idjum
• Hyphenation: pre‧sì‧dium

Noun

presidium m (uncountable)

1. administrative department, head office

   Synonyms: direzione, presidenza

Further reading

• presidium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

presidium n (definite singular presidiet, indefinite plural presidier, definite plural presidia or presidiene)

1. presidency
2. presidium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

presidium n (definite singular presidiet, indefinite plural presidium, definite plural presidia)

1. presidency
2. presidium

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin praesidium. Attested since circa 1655.

Noun

presidium n

1. presidium
2. chairmanship

Declension

Declension of presidium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	presidium	presidiums
	definite	presidiet	presidiets
plural	indefinite	presidier	presidiers
	definite	presidierna	presidiernas

References

• presidium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• presidium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• presidium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)