Meanings
plural convivia
- A symposium.
In Canada, there are more than 1,500 members and 39 convivia or local chapters.
2009 April 28, Pamela Cuthbert, “Slow food author promotes focus on food producers”, in Toronto Star1 more example
I neglect the convivium (many people) in the hunger for the kind of fullness of being only possible in the dialogue (verbal mostly, sometimes physical) with one other person.
2012, Susan Sontag, “2/15/70”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN - biologyA geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype
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