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

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convivium

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

At banquets of the rich, after the dessert of fruit and cakes had been taken, there was, in later times, the convivium, or social "drinking-bout."

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

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

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

For it was a good idea of our ancestors to style the presence of guests at a dinner-table—seeing that it implied a community of enjoyment—a convivium, "a living together."

From Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley