symposium
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)
- A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
- A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
- Alternative form: symposion
- A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
- 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
- THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.
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See also
[edit]symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: sym‧po‧si‧um
Noun
[edit]symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]symposium m (plural symposiums)
Further reading
[edit]- “symposium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /symˈpo.si.um/, [s̠ʏmˈpɔs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /simˈpo.si.um/, [simˈpɔːs̬ium]
Noun
[edit]symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | symposium | symposia |
Genitive | symposiī symposī1 |
symposiōrum |
Dative | symposiō | symposiīs |
Accusative | symposium | symposia |
Ablative | symposiō | symposiīs |
Vocative | symposium | symposia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Noun
[edit]symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion).
Noun
[edit]symposium n
Declension
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | symposium | symposiet | symposier | symposierna |
Genitive | symposiums | symposiets | symposiers | symposiernas |
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₃-
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- en:Ancient Greece
- en:Drinking
- en:Parties
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