colloquy

English

WOTD – 9 June 2012

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kŏl'ə-kwē, IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/

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Noun

colloquy (countable and uncountable, plural colloquies)

1. A conversation or dialogue. [from 15th c.]
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     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.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A formal conference. [16th–17th c.]
3. (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations. [from 17th c.]
4. A written discourse. [from 18th c.]
5. (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what their rights are.
   • 1999, H. L. Pohlman, The Whole Truth?: A Case of Murder on the Appalachian Trail, →ISBN, page 193:

     At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “a conversation of multiple people”): soliloquy

Hypernyms

• conversation, conference, discourse, discussion

Coordinate terms

• dialog, dialogue

Derived terms

• colloquial
• colloquist
• colloquize

 

Related terms

• circumlocution
• collogue
• colloquium
• eloquent
• grandiloquent
• illocution
• interlocution
• interlocutor
• locution
• loquacious
• magniloquent
• perlocution
• soliloquy
• ventriloquy

Translations

conversation, dialogue

• Bulgarian: разговор (bg) (razgovor), събеседване (sǎbesedvane)
• Catalan: col·loqui (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 国际讨论会 (guojitaolunhui)

• Czech: disputace
• Danish: kollokvium
• Finnish: keskustelu (fi)
• French: colloque (fr) m, conversation (fr)
• German: Konversation (de) f, Gespräch (de) n, Kolloquium (de)
• Hungarian: beszélgetés (hu)
• Indonesian: mengandung percakapan
• Italian: colloquio (it), conversazione (it) f
• Japanese: 対談 (ja) (taidan)
• Korean: 담화 (ko) (damhwa)
• Latin: colloquium (la) n, conversatio f
• Lithuanian: kolokvijs
• Portuguese: colóquio (pt) m, conversa (pt) f
• Romanian: colocviu (ro) n
• Russian: собесе́дование (ru) n (sobesédovanije), разгово́р (ru) m (razgovór)
• Slovak: kolokvium (sk)
• Slovene: kolokvij
• Spanish: coloquio (es), conversación (es)
• Swedish: konversation (sv), samtal (sv)
• Turkish: söyleşi (tr)
• Vietnamese: hội đàm (vi)

formal conference

• Bulgarian: разискване (bg) (raziskvane)
• Catalan: col·loqui (ca) m
• Finnish: kokous (fi), kollokvio (fi)
• Portuguese: colóquio (pt) m
• Russian: конфере́нция (ru) f (konferéncija)
• Spanish: coloquio (es) m

Christianity: church court held by certain Reformed denominations

• German: Religionsgespräch n

written discourse

law: discussion during a trial between the judge and the defendant

See also

• colloquium

Verb

colloquy (third-person singular simple present colloquies, present participle colloquying, simple past and past participle colloquied)

1. (intransitive, rare) To converse.