# symposium
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

### Pronunciation

* (US, CA) IPA: /sɪmˈpoʊziəm/
* (GB) IPA: /sɪmˈpəʊziəm/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)
* A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
* A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
    Alternative form: symposion
* A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
** 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.

#### Related terms

* symposiast
* sympotic

#### Translations
### See also

* symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
* “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sym‧po‧si‧um

### Noun

symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)
* symposium

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ̃.po.zjɔm/, /sɛ̃.pɔ.zjɔm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

symposium m (plural symposiums)
* symposium
    Synonym: colloque

### Further reading

* “symposium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /symˈpo.si.um/, [s̠ʏmˈpɔs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /simˈpo.si.um/, [simˈpɔːs̬ium]

### Noun

symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension
* symposium

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | symposium | symposia |
| Genitive | symposiī symposī$^1$ | symposiōrum |
| Dative | symposiō | symposiīs |
| Accusative | symposium | symposia |
| Ablative | symposiō | symposiīs |
| Vocative | symposium | symposia |
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

### References

* “symposium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “symposium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)
* symposium

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)
* symposium

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion).

### Noun

symposium n
* symposium

#### Declension
### Further reading

* symposium in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker