colloquium
noun/kəˈləʊkwiəm/
/kəˈləʊkwiəm/
(plural colloquia
/kəˈləʊkwiə/
/kəˈləʊkwiə/
)- a formal academic seminar or conferenceTopics Educationc2Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a conversation): from Latin, from colloqui ‘to converse’, from col- ‘together’ + loqui ‘to talk’.
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