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Colloquium vs Tertulia - What's the difference?

colloquium | tertulia |

As nouns the difference between colloquium and tertulia

is that colloquium is a colloquy; a meeting for discussion while tertulia is an evening party, a , especially in spain.

colloquium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
  • An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
  • An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
  • (legal) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.

    • Usage notes

    Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal'' conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to ''formal conversation.

    Quotations

    * 1876 : Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England , I. 87. *: Writs were issued to London and the other towns principally concerned, directing the mayor and sheriffs to send to a colloquium at York two or three citizens with full power to treat on behalf of the community of the town.

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    tertulia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An evening party, a , especially in Spain.
  • :* 1994': At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench '''tertulia . — Cormac McCarthy, ''The Crossing
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