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convivium
[ kuhn-viv-ee-uhm ]
noun
- a banquet, feast, or gathering.
- Biology, Ecology. a population of a species that, having adapted to geographical isolation, has developed differences from other members of the same species, often enough to be classified as a subspecies or ecotype.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of convivium1
First recorded in 1720–30; from Latin: “feast”; convivial ( def )
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Example Sentences
Any direct contact or convivium of any length of time is thus excluded.
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Septem convivium, novem convitium—Seven is a banquet, nine a brawl.
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Post convivium, inquit, seria—'save up the sorrow until after supper.'
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At that time the work really contained but one true dialogue, the nucleus of the later Convivium profanum.
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Plutarch introduces Thales in his Convivium Sapientium, as telling a somewhat similar story.
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