different between colloquium vs tertulia

English

Etymology

From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy +? -ium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l??kwi??m/, enPR: k?-l??kw?-?m

Noun

colloquium (plural colloquiums or colloquia)

1. A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
2. An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
3. An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
4. (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

Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to formal conversation.

Quotations

• 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

References

• colloquium in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Alternative forms

• conloquium

Etymology

colloquor +? -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kol?lo.k?i.um/, [k?l??l??k?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kol?lo.kwi.um/, [k?l?l??kwium]

Noun

colloquium n (genitive colloqui? or colloqu?); second declension

1. conversation

2. discussion
3. interview
4. conference
5. parley

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

From Spanish tertulia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???tu?l??/

Noun

tertulia (plural tertulias)

1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.

Anagrams

• liturate, rutilate

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown origin. See Wikipedia entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??tulja/, [t?e??t?u.lja]

Noun

tertulia f (plural tertulias)

1. regular social gathering, circle
   • 1998, Federico Utrera, Carmen de Burgos, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Memorias de Colombine, la primera periodista, Hijos de Muley-Rubio ?ISBN, page 280

     Un día me encuentro a Rafa Cansinos y me hace una confidencia: - Ramón ha fundado una tertulia literaria en la antigua botillería de Pombo, que se conserva como en los tiempos de su inauguración, allá bajo el reinado de Isabel II.

Derived terms

• tertuliano

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: tertúlia

Further reading

• “tertulia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.