Word Origin Summary

Colloquium is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• samenspraak

  Dutch · derived from

• colloquio

  Italian · derived from

• kollokviumi

  Finnish · derived from

• coloquio

  Spanish · borrowed from

• kollokvium

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• collogue

  English · derived from

• colocviu

  Romanian · borrowed from

• kollokvium

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

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