Colloquium

Quick meaning: Colloquium is a noun meaning A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.

Meaning

A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.

More Meanings

1. An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
2. An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
3. (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.
4. (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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• colloquiums
• colloquia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colloque, colloquy, discussion, forum, conference, event.

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