symposium

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪm.ˈpoʊ.zi.əm/

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symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

   Alternative form: symposion

3. A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.

• symposiast
• sympotic

• symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

From Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

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• Hyphenation: sym‧po‧si‧um

symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)

1. symposium

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.po.zjɔm/, /sɛ̃.pɔ.zjɔm/

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symposium m (plural symposiums)

1. symposium

   Synonym: colloque

• “symposium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /symˈpo.si.um/, [s̠ʏmˈpɔs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /simˈpo.si.um/, [simˈpɔːs̬ium]

symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension

1. symposium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “symposium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “symposium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)

1. symposium

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)

1. symposium