colloquium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy +‎ -ium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈləʊkwiəm/, enPR: kə-lōʹkwē-əm === Noun === colloquium (plural colloquiums or colloquia) A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. An address to an academic meeting or seminar. (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. (classical studies) 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 ==== Usage notes ==== Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to formal conversation, or to a written text containing a recorded or scripted dialogue. ==== Quotations ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== colloquy Colloquy (pedagogical dialogue) ==== References ==== William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “colloquium”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Latin == === Alternative forms === conloquium === Etymology === From colloquor + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔlˈlɔ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kolˈlɔː.kʷi.um] === Noun === colloquium n (genitive colloquiī or colloquī); second declension conversation, discussion Synonym: sermo interview conference Synonym: parlamentum parley ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “colloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "colloquium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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[4], London: Macmillan and Co.