convivium

American  

[kuhn-viv-ee-uhm] / kənˈvɪv i əm /

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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Etymology

Origin of convivium

First recorded in 1720–30; from Latin: “feast”; see origin at convivial ( def. )

Example Sentences

It is an assumption still widely accepted as true, but Harald Scholl, of the Munich Slow Food convivium, thinks otherwise.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2014

Over the altar is this inscription in Latin:— O sacrum convivium in quo Christus sumitur. 75There is here, as was the case with Gardiner's chantry, a small room at the eastern end.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham

Quin et convivium effluvio lacus adpositum, magna formidine cunctos adfecit; quia vis aquarum prorumpens proxima trahebat, convulsis ulterioribus, aut fragore et sonitu exterritis.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

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

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

In the Actio prima of his Verrine orations Cicero gives a graphic picture of a convivium beginning early, where the proposal was made and agreed to that the drinking should be "more graeco."

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde