colloquium

English

Etymology

From Latin colloquium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈləʊkwiːəm/, enPR: kə-lōʹkwē-əm

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

academic meeting

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• Aramaic:

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• Catalan: col·loqui m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 座談會 (zh), 座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì), 討論會 (zh), 讨论会 (zh) (tǎolùnhuì)

• Czech: kolokvium n
• Danish: kollokvium n
• Egyptian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: kolokvo
• French: colloque (fr) m
• Georgian: კოლოკვიუმი (ḳoloḳviumi)
• German: Kolloquium (de) n
• Greek: συνέδριο (el) n (synédrio)
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
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• Ido: koloquo
• Interlingua: colloquio

• Interlingue: coloquie
• Japanese: コロキウム (korokiumu)
• Korean: 콜로키움 (kollokium)
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• Ottoman Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: colóquio (pt) m
• Russian: колло́квиум (ru) m (kollókvium)
• Slovene: kolovij m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kolokwium m

• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kollokvium (sv) n
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References

• colloquium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Alternative forms

• conloquium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlo.kʷi.um/, [kɔlˈlɔ.kᶣi.ũ]

Noun

colloquium n (genitive colloquiī); second declension

1. conversation
2. discussion
3. interview
4. conference
5. parley

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	colloquium	colloquia
genitive	colloquiī colloquī1	colloquiōrum
dative	colloquiō	colloquiīs
accusative	colloquium	colloquia
ablative	colloquiō	colloquiīs
vocative	colloquium	colloquia

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

Descendants

• French: colloque
• Polish: kolokwium
• Russian: колло́квиум (kollókvium)
• Spanish: coloquio

References

• colloquium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “colloquium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to appoint a date for an interview: diem dicere colloquio
    
  • to ask a hearing, audience, interview: aditum conveniendi or colloquium petere
    
  • to obtain an audience of some one: (ad colloquium) admitti (B. C. 3. 57)