different between symposia vs symposium

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

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from ??????? (sumpín?, “drink together”) ???- (sun-, “together-”) + ???? (pín?, “drink”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s?m.?po?.zi.?m/

Noun

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

Related terms

• symposiast
• sympotic

Translations

See also

• symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from ??????? (sumpín?, “drink together”) ???- (sun-, “together-”) + ???? (pín?, “drink”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sym?po?si?um

Noun

symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)

1. symposium

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.po.zj?m/, /s??.p?.zj?m/

Noun

symposium m (plural symposiums)

1. symposium

Synonyms

• colloque

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sym?po.si.um/, [s??m?p?s?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim?po.si.um/, [sim?p??s?ium]

Noun

symposium n (genitive symposi? or sympos?); second declension

1. symposium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

References

• symposium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• symposium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)

1. symposium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)

1. symposium