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convivium

[ kuhn-viv-ee-uhm ]

noun

  1. a banquet, feast, or gathering.
  2. 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.

Septem convivium, novem convitium—Seven is a banquet, nine a brawl.

Post convivium, inquit, seria—'save up the sorrow until after supper.'

At that time the work really contained but one true dialogue, the nucleus of the later Convivium profanum.

Plutarch introduces Thales in his Convivium Sapientium, as telling a somewhat similar story.

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