Complete Definition of "colloquium"

English
Pronunciation
enPR|k�-l�ʹkw�-�m
Noun
colloquium (plural colloquia)

  1. A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
  2. An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
  3. An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
  4. 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.
Quotations
1876: Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England, I. 87.

Translations
academic meeting
Swedish: kollokvium n

References
R:Century 1911

Latin

Noun
la-noun|colloquium|colloquii|colloquiī|n|second
#a conversation

Inflection
la-decl-2nd-N|colloqui

fr:colloquium
ko:colloquium
hr:colloquium
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