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From Latin colloquium. Doublet of colloquy. Equivalent to colloquy +‎ -ium.

colloquium (plural colloquiums or colloquia)

  1. A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
    • 1997, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Kiadói Bizottsága, Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis‎[1], volume 33, page 204:
      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.
  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.

Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to formal conversation.

academic meeting

colloquor +‎ -ium

colloquium n (genitive colloquiī or colloquī); second declension

  1. conversation, discussion
    Synonym: sermo
    Marcus et Lucius in colloquium venerunt.
    Marcus and Lucius had a conversation.
  2. interview
  3. conference
    Synonym: parlamentum
    • Cicero, Phillipics, 12.
      Non tenuit omnino colloquium illud fidem
      There was no faith at all in that conference.
  4. parley

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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