symposium Latin · revision 4275

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Nepos|origins=grc συμπόσιον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [symˈpɔ.si.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [simˈpɔː.s̬i.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''symposium''' ''n'' (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|συμπόσιον|tr=sumpósion|t=drinking party]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874) Etymonline analyses the Greek as [[m|grc|συν-|tr=sun-|t=together]] and [[m|grc|πόσις|tr=pósis|t=drinking]].^(Etymonline) Georges and Gaffiot also give the Greek form [[m|la|symposion]].^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Nepos, in his life of Alcibiades, says Socrates loved him and Plato mentions it in the Symposium.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Nepos c. 100–24 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a drinking party, and as a title Plato's dialogue set at one, and a similar work by Xenophon, cited by Gellius, Quintilian and Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius speaks of attending symposia in Alexandria.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval British Latin it was a party or banquet, and John of Salisbury mentions the Socratic symposium.^(DMLBS) English ''symposium'' is recorded in 1711 for a convivial meeting of drinking and conversation.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos mentions Plato's Symposium.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder mentions Xenophon's Symposium.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of banquets.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1711 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|symposium]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A drinking party, [[m|en|banquet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(as a title)'' The Symposium of Plato or of Xenophon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|symposium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}