colloquium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
law
sciences
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.
Base: colloquy
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
form: colloquiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colloquia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
pos: noun
gloss: An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
pos: noun
gloss: 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
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
Related words: colloquy
Colloquy
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 座談會 /座谈会
roman: zuòtánhuì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 討論會 /讨论会
roman: tǎolùnhuì
lang: Czech
word: kolokvium
lang: Danish
word: kollokvium
lang: Dutch
word: colloquium
lang: Esperanto
word: kolokvo
lang: French
word: colloque
lang: Georgian
word: კოლოკვიუმი
roman: ḳoloḳviumi
lang: German
word: Kolloquium
lang: Greek
word: συνέδριο
roman: synédrio
lang: Hebrew
word: שיחת בדיקה
roman: sikhát bdiká
lang: Hebrew
word: קולוקוויום
roman: kolókvium
lang: Ido
word: koloquo
lang: Indonesian
word: kolokium
lang: Interlingua
word: colloquio
lang: Japanese
word: コロキウム
roman: korokiumu
lang: Korean
word: 콜로키움
roman: kollokium
lang: Portuguese
word: colóquio
lang: Russian
word: колло́квиум
roman: kollókvium
lang: Slovak
word: kolokvium
lang: Slovene
word: kolovij
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kolokwium
lang: Swedish
word: kollokvium
lang: Yiddish
word: קאָלאָקוויום
roman: kolokvyum