colloquy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- kŏl'ə-kwē (UK)
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 colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
Meanings
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(countable, formal, uncountable) A conversation or dialogue.
House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A formal conference.
- (countable, uncountable) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- (countable, uncountable) A written discourse.
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(countable, uncountable) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.
1999, H. L. Pohlman, The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail, →ISBN, page 193:
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(countable, uncountable) 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
That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ...
1919 January, Florence A. Gragg, “Two Schoolmasters of the Renaissance”, in The Classical Journal, volume 14, number 4, pages 211-223:The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals.
2021, Giuseppina Ieraci, “Erasmus' Colloquies: Latin and the Good Life”, in Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| colloquies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
soliloquy (antonym(s) of “a conversation of multiple people”)
Coordinates
Deriveds
colloquial · colloquize · colloquist
Hypernyms
conference · conversation · discussion · discourse
Relateds
collogue · magniloquent · interlocutor · grandiloquent · circumlocution · Colloquy · interlocution · perlocution · colloquium · soliloquy · ventriloquy · illocution · loquacious · eloquent · locution
Translations (43)
it conversazione (conversation, dialogue) · cmn 国际讨论会 (conversation, dialogue) · fi kollokvio (formal conference) · ca col·loqui (formal conference) · fi kokous (formal conference) · sv samtal (conversation, dialogue) · fi keskustelu (conversation, dialogue) · it colloquio (conversation, dialogue) · sk kolokvium (conversation, dialogue) · es conversación (conversation, dialogue) · pt colóquio (conversation, dialogue) · de Konversation (conversation, dialogue) · la colloquium (conversation, dialogue) · sl kolokvij (conversation, dialogue) · bg разговор (conversation, dialogue) · ja 対談 (conversation, dialogue) · ko 담화 (conversation, dialogue) · ru собесе́дование (conversation, dialogue) · fr colloque (conversation, dialogue) · pt colóquio (formal conference) · pt conversa (conversation, dialogue) · sv konversation (conversation, dialogue) · cs disputace (conversation, dialogue) · fr conversation (conversation, dialogue) · de Gespräch (conversation, dialogue) · vi hội đàm (conversation, dialogue) · ru конфере́нция (formal conference) · tr söyleşi (conversation, dialogue) · id mengandung percakapan (conversation, dialogue) · bg събеседване (conversation, dialogue) · ca col·loqui (conversation, dialogue) · de Religionsgespräch (Christianity: church court held by certain Reformed denominations) · lt kolokvijs (conversation, dialogue) · es coloquio (conversation, dialogue) · da kollokvium (conversation, dialogue) · ro colocviu (conversation, dialogue) · ru разгово́р (conversation, dialogue) · tr sohbet (conversation, dialogue) · la conversatio (conversation, dialogue) · bg разискване (formal conference) · es coloquio (formal conference) · hu beszélgetés (conversation, dialogue) · de Kolloquium (conversation, dialogue)