colloquium Latin · revision 31086

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd century BC, Turpilius|origins=ine-pro *tlokʷ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔlˈlɔ.kʷi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kolˈlɔː.kʷi.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colloquium''' ''n'' (genitive colloquiī or colloquī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conloquium''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|colloquor|t=to talk with]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The verb is [[m|la|com-|t=together]] and [[m|la|loquor|t=to speak]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*tlokʷe/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*tlokʷ-|t=to talk]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|ad·tluchedar|t=gives thanks]] and [[ru|толк|tr=tolk|t=meaning]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and the OLD find it first in the comic poet Turpilius, of private talk: ''cessō mē in colloquium cōnferre?'', “why don't I join their conversation?”.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is talk between persons, entering into talk with someone (Sallust), company and conversation as a sign of social life (Cicero misses everyone's ''colloquium'' in his solitude), and talk by letter.^(OLD 2012) It is also a conference or discussion, an interview one asks for (Nepos), and in war a parley with the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it named an audience with a ruler, a general assembly of the king's men, a session of the royal court or of a law court, a church synod, a town assembly and the general chapter of the Premonstratensians.^(Niermeyer 1976) English took it over as ''colloquium'' around 1600, at first for a conversation, and earlier as [[m|en|colloquy]] in the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd century BC – Turpilius of a private conversation.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of conferences and of talk by letter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos of an interview asked for.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English [[m|en|colloquy]].^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1600 – English [[m|en|colloquium]], “conversation”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Talk, [[m|en|conversation]]; social intercourse.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|conference]], discussion; an interview.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(military)'' A [[m|en|parley]] (with an enemy).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An audience with a ruler; an assembly of the king's men; a session of a court.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A church council or [[m|en|synod]]; a town assembly.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loquor]]

+ * [[sermō]]

+ * [[en|colloquy]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes [[sermō]], a conversation that arises by chance and has no fixed purpose, from ''colloquium'', a talk agreed on for a purpose, like a conference.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}