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A colloquy is a conversation, usually a rather formal or one. You will meet it in writing more than in the street. In American courts, a colloquy is the careful, on-the-record talk between a judge and someone — for example, to check that a guilty plea is understood. There is also a rare verb, to colloquy, meaning to talk; almost nobody uses it. Same Latin parent as colloquium: English kept colloquy for the talk itself, and colloquium for the academic meeting.
正式交談、對談
組成From Middle English colloquies, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together”) + loquor (“to speak”). Doublet of colloquium.
同家族的字
- colloquiumdoublet — same Latin parent; now an academic meeting
- colloquialthe “everyday talk” adjective from the same family
- locutionalso from Latin loquor, “to speak”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
colloquynoun/ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/
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formal# A conversation or dialogue.
- 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.
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obsoleteA formal conference.
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ChristianityA church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
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A written discourse.
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lawA 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.
- At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.
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classical-studieshistoryhuman-sciencesA collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- 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, ...
colloquyverb/ˈkɒ.lə.kwi/
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rareTo converse.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。