colloquium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin colloquium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colloquium (plural colloquiums or colloquia)
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- (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[edit]
Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to formal conversation.
Quotations[edit]
- 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[edit]
academic meeting
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References[edit]
- colloquium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colloquium n (genitive colloquiī); second declension
Inflection[edit]
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[edit]
- English: colloquium
- French: colloque
- German: Kolloquium
- Italian: colloquio
- Polish: kolokwium
- Portuguese: colóquio
- Russian: колло́квиум (kollókvium)
- Spanish: coloquio
References[edit]
- 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.
- 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)
- to appoint a date for an interview: diem dicere colloquio
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