different between symposia vs colloquium

English

Noun

symposia

1. plural of symposium

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

symposia

1. Plural form of symposium

Synonyms

• symposiums

Latin

Noun

symposia

1. nominative plural of symposium
2. accusative plural of symposium
3. vocative plural of symposium

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.