different between symposium vs council

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 Middle English counseil, conseil, from Anglo-Norman cuncile and Old French concile, from Latin concilium. Doublet of concelho.

Pronunciation

• enPR: koun?-s?l, IPA^(key): /?ka?n.s?l/
• Homophone: counsel

Noun

council (plural councils)

1. A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
2. Discussion or deliberation.

Hyponyms

• synod

Derived terms

Related terms

• conciliate
• reconcile

Translations

See also

• counsel