colloquium

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English

Etymology

From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈləʊkwiəm/, enPR: kə-lōʹkwē-əm
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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.

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References

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

colloquor +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

Noun

colloquium n (genitive colloquiī or colloquī); second declension

  1. Synonym of sermo, conversation, discussion
    Marcus et Lucius in colloquium venerunt.
    Marcus and Lucius had a conversation.
  2. interview
  3. conference
  4. parley

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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).

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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, 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)
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