colloquium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   an address to an academic meeting or seminar

4. 4
   noun

   an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

5. 5
   noun

   An address to an academic meeting or seminar.

6. 6
   noun

   That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquium English colloquium From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy + -ium.