colloquy

English

WOTD – 9 June 2012

Etymology

From Latin colloquium (“conversation”),[1] from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words).[2]

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 16th 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:
      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

  • (a conversation of multiple people): soliloquy

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References

  1. ↑ “colloquy” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  2. ↑ “colloquy” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
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