colloquium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colloquium (plural colloquiums or colloquia)
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- (law) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
Usage notes edit
Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to formal conversation.
Quotations edit
- 1876, Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England, I. 87:
- Writs were issued to London and the other towns principally concerned, directing the mayor and sheriffs to send to a colloquium at York two or three citizens with full power to treat on behalf of the community of the town.
Translations edit
academic meeting
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References edit
- “colloquium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈlo.kʷi.um/, [kɔlˈlʲɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kolˈlo.kwi.um/, [kolˈlɔːkwium]
Noun edit
colloquium n (genitive colloquiī or colloquī); second declension
- Synonym of sermo, conversation, discussion
- Marcus et Lucius in colloquium venerunt.
- Marcus and Lucius had a conversation.
- interview
- conference
- parley
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | colloquium | colloquia |
Genitive | colloquiī colloquī1 |
colloquiōrum |
Dative | colloquiō | colloquiīs |
Accusative | colloquium | colloquia |
Ablative | colloquiō | colloquiīs |
Vocative | colloquium | colloquia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms edit
- (conference, meeting): parlamentum (Medieval)
Descendants edit
Descendants
- → English: colloquium, colloquy
- → French: colloque
- → German: Kolloquium
- → Italian: colloquio
- → Polish: kolokwium
- → Portuguese: colóquio
- → Romanian: colocviu
- → Russian: колло́квиум (kollókvium)
- → Spanish: coloquio
- → Swedish: kollokvium
References edit
- “colloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to appoint a date for an interview: diem dicere colloquio
- to ask a hearing, audience, interview: aditum conveniendi or colloquium petere
- to obtain an audience of some one: (ad colloquium) admitti (B. C. 3. 57)
- to appoint a date for an interview: diem dicere colloquio