different between forum vs colloquium

English

Alternative forms

• 4m (Internet leet)
• 4rum (Internet leet)

Etymology

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????m/
• Rhymes: -????m
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

5. (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

• Ref: Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).
• Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156).

Related terms

• conforaneous (rare)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forum. The sense “Internet forum” comes from English forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?.r?m/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum n (plural fora or forums, diminutive forumpje n)

1. forum (ancient Roman marketplace)
2. forum (venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange)
3. Internet forum

   Synonym: internetforum

Usage notes

All senses can use the plural fora. The plural forums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.

Derived terms

• internetforum

Related terms

• foor

French

Etymology

• Most meanings: Learned borrowing from Latin forum.
• Internet: Borrowed from English forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.??m/

Noun

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

Further reading

• “forum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?for?m]
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum (plural forum-forum, first-person possessive forumku, second-person possessive forummu, third-person possessive forumnya)

1. forum: a place for discussion.
2. institution, body

   Synonyms: lembaga, wadah

3. meeting, session, assembly.

   Synonym: sidang

Alternative forms

• fora

Further reading

• “forum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/
• Rhymes: -?rum
• Hyphenation: fò?rum

Noun

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Cognate with foris, for?s, Old Church Slavonic ????? (dvor?, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit ????? (dv??ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f???um]

Noun

forum n (genitive for?); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• forensis
• forica

Descendants

References

• forum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• forum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• forum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• forum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• forum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural fora or forumer, definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene)

1. a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/

Noun

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) forowicz, forumowicz
• (adjectives) forowy, forumowy

Further reading

• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin forum

Noun

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??rum/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. forum

Declension

Derived terms

• fórumsk?

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.