convivium

convivium

English

Noun

convivium (plural convivia)

1. A symposium.
   • 2009 April 28, Pamela Cuthbert, “Slow food author promotes focus on food producers”, in Toronto Star‎:

     In Canada, there are more than 1,500 members and 39 convivia or local chapters.

   • 2012, Susan Sontag, “2/15/70”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (ecology) A 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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Latin

Etymology

From convīvō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈu̯iː.u̯i.um/, [kɔnˈu̯iːu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈvi.vi.um/, [koɱˈviːvium]

Noun

convīvium n (genitive convīviī or convīvī); second declension

1. a banquet, a party, a feast

   Synonyms: cōmissātiō, dominium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, daps

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	convīvium	convīvia
Genitive	convīviī convīvī1	convīviōrum
Dative	convīviō	convīviīs
Accusative	convīvium	convīvia
Ablative	convīviō	convīviīs
Vocative	convīvium	convīvia

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

Descendants

• → English: convivium
• → Old French: convive

References

• “convivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “convivium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convivium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• convivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide)
    
  • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    
  • a repast which begins in good time: convivia tempestiva (Arch. 6. 13)
    
• “convivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “convivium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin