Colloquy Meaning
/ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA conversation or dialogue.
nounA formal conference.
Sentence Examples
The professor engaged in a colloquy with students.
Their colloquy lasted for several hours.
The leaders held a private colloquy to discuss the peace treaty.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The two philosophers engaged in a lengthy ____ about the nature of truth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two political leaders engaged in a serious private ____ to resolve the ongoing border dispute.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety."
— 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
"House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds."
— 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
"At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal."
— 1999, H. L. Pohlman, The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail, →ISBN, page 193:
"The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals."
— 2021, Giuseppina Ieraci, “Erasmus' Colloquies: Latin and the Good Life”, in Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies:
"That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ..."
— 1919 January, Florence A. Gragg, “Two Schoolmasters of the Renaissance”, in The Classical Journal, volume 14, number 4, pages 211-223:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The two philosophers engaged in a lengthy ____ about the nature of truth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two political leaders engaged in a serious private ____ to resolve the ongoing border dispute.