colloquium

What it means

1. A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.

   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.

   1997, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Kiadói Bizottsága, Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, volume 33, page 204

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.

In a sentence

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.

1997, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Kiadói Bizottsága, Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, volume 33, page 204

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
3. Proto-Italic*kom
4. Proto-Italic*kom-
5. Latincon-
6. Proto-Indo-European*telkʷ-
7. Proto-Indo-European*tlokʷetor
8. Proto-Italic*tlokʷōr
9. Latinloquor
10. Latincolloquor
11. Latincolloquium
12. Englishcolloquium

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