symposium
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)
- A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
- A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
- Alternative form: symposion
- A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
- 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
- THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.
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See also edit
- symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sym‧po‧si‧um
Noun edit
symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
symposium m (plural symposiums)
Further reading edit
- “symposium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /symˈpo.si.um/, [s̠ʏmˈpɔs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /simˈpo.si.um/, [simˈpɔːs̬ium]
Noun edit
symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | symposium | symposia |
Genitive | symposiī symposī1 |
symposiōrum |
Dative | symposiō | symposiīs |
Accusative | symposium | symposia |
Ablative | symposiō | symposiīs |
Vocative | symposium | symposia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)
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Noun edit
symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)