different between symposium vs colloquium

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

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.