What does "colloquium" mean?
A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
Colloquium
/kəˈləʊkwiəm/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- Grammar: colloquium is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: academic meeting, airing, analysis, assemblee.
- Useful contrasts: informal talk, private conversation, uncollected papers.
- Usage evidence: Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
"Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject."
- 2 an address to an academic meeting or seminar wordnet
- 3 An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- 4 an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting wordnet
- 5 An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
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- 6 That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- 7 A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
"Colloquia are books in Latin for teaching the Latin language as though it were alive and spoken. They are Latin books in the form of scripted conversations. This Latin and Greek textbook gives little daily conversations about familiar things, like waking up, dressing, going to school and so on. ... Scholars during the time of the great Latin revival deliberately set out to copy this methodology, and from the late 1400's, right through to the early 1900's, a large number of dialogues and student level readers were written."
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
informal talkprivate conversationuncollected papersunpublished manuscripts
Example
"Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "colloquium"?
Common synonyms include: academic meeting, airing, analysis, assemblee, assembly, assignation.
How do you use "colloquium" in a sentence?
Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject.
How do you pronounce "colloquium"?
Pronounced /kəˈləʊkwiəm/.
Etymology
From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy + -ium.