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English
Noun
convivium (plural convivia)
- A symposium.
2009 April 28, Pamela Cuthbert, “Slow food author promotes focus on food producers”, in Toronto Star: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.
- (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
Noun
convīvium n (genitive convīviī or convīvī); second declension
- a banquet, a party, a feast
- Synonyms: cōmissātiō, dominium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, daps
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
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, 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