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colloquium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• kə-lōʹkwē-əm
• (Southern-England) audio
• /kəˈləʊkwiəm/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin colloquium English colloquium From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy + -ium.

Meanings

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. 1997, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Kiadói Bizottsága, Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, volume 33, page 204:
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. That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
5. 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
   • These are the first colloquia for learners that I’m aware of. They aren’t the flowery dialogues of the later Renaissance authors like Pontanus, but they are the only colloquia we have by a native speaker of the Latin language and a great way to experience Roman Latin of a colloquial register. They are written for schoolchildren who were either Greek speakers learning Latin or Latin speakers learning Greek, and generally deal with activities in the ancient classroom the daily lives of young Romans. 2023 July 6, “Colloquia Part I: Before the 16th century”, in Lupus Alatus:
   • Thus a modern student learning French might memorize a dialogue in which a character goes to a café in Paris and orders a sandwich, and the ancient student learning Latin would memorize one in which a character goes to the baths in Rome and gets someone to watch his clothes while he swims. Many bilingual texts were written specifically for language learners; these are known as "colloquia," because much of their content (though not all of it) is in dialogue form. 2016, Eleanor Dickey, Learning Latin the Ancient Way, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
   • 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. 2020 August 4, “Colloquia”, in The Latinum Institute of Ancient and Modern Languages:

Forms

Relateds

Colloquy · colloquy

Translations (25)

he שיחת בדיקה (academic meeting) · he קולוקוויום (academic meeting) · dsb kolokwium (academic meeting) · sk kolokvium (academic meeting) · fi kollokvio (academic meeting) · ia colloquio (academic meeting) · cmn 討論會 /讨论会 (academic meeting) · fr colloque (academic meeting) · io koloquo (academic meeting) · ka კოლოკვიუმი (academic meeting) · nl colloquium (academic meeting) · ja コロキウム (academic meeting) · da kollokvium (academic meeting) · el συνέδριο (academic meeting) · ko 콜로키움 (academic meeting) · pt colóquio (academic meeting) · ru колло́квиум (academic meeting) · yi קאָלאָקוויום (academic meeting) · cmn 座談會 /座谈会 (academic meeting) · cs kolokvium (academic meeting) · eo kolokvo (academic meeting) · de Kolloquium (academic meeting) · id kolokium (academic meeting) · sv kollokvium (academic meeting) · sl kolovij (academic meeting)