convivium

English

Noun

convivium (plural convivia)

1. A symposium.
   • 2009 April 28, Pamela Cuthbert, “Slow food author promotes focus on food producers”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     In Canada, there are more than 1,500 members and 39 convivia or local chapters.

   • 2012, Susan Sontag, “2/15/70”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     I neglect the convivium (many people) in the hunger for the kind of fullness of being only possible in the dialogue (verbal mostly, sometimes physical) with one other person.

2. (ecology) A geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype

Latin

Etymology

From convīvō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈwiː.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈviː.vi.um]

Noun

convīvium n (genitive convīviī or convīvī); second declension

1. banquet, party, feast

   Synonyms: cōmissātiō, dominium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, daps

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.77:

     Nunc eadem lābente diē convīvia quaerit, [...].

     Now, as each day wanes, [Dido] endeavors [to repeat] the same feasts, [...].
     (In other words, the queen repeatedly hosts lavish banquets similar to the welcoming feast in the first book of the Aeneid.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	convīvium	convīvia
genitive	convīviī convīvī1	convīviōrum
dative	convīviō	convīviīs
accusative	convīvium	convīvia
ablative	convīviō	convīviīs
vocative	convīvium	convīvia

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

Derived terms

• convīvālis

Descendants

• Friulian: convivi
• Italian: convivio
• Portuguese: convívio
• Spanish: convivio
• → English: convivium
• → Old French: convive

References

• “convivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “convivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "convivium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “convivium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide)
    
  • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    
  • a repast which begins in good time: convivia tempestiva (Arch. 6. 13)
    
• “convivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “convivium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin