The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσυμπόσιον“drinking party”
- Latin · borrowed fromsymposium
- English todaysymposium
Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”), from συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”). Morphologically compare compotation.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσυμπόσιον all →
symposion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.