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.

2. (ecology) A geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype

Latin

Etymology

From convivo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈwiː.wi.um/, [kɔnˈwiː.wi.ũ]

Noun

convīvium n ‎(genitive convīviī); second declension

1. A banquet, a feast

Inflection

Second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “convivium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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