colloquium

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin colloquium. .

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 座談會／座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì), 座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì), 討論會／讨论会 (zh) (tǎolùnhuì), 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)
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• Ido: koloquo
• Interlingua: colloquio
• Interlingue:
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• 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 […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• conloquium

Etymology

colloquor +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈlo.kʷi.um/, [kɔlˈlʲɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlo.kwi.um/, [kolˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

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

Descendants

• English: colloquium
• French: colloque
• German: Kolloquium
• Italian: colloquio
• Polish: kolokwium
• Portuguese: colóquio
• Russian: колло́квиум (kollókvium)
• Spanish: coloquio

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)