colloquy
/ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety."
- "House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds."
- "At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal."
- "The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals."
- "That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ..."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/