symposium

• n. セミナー、シンポジウム; シンポジウム; 宴会; 宴会

ラテン語の symposium, 飲み会, シンポジウム, ギリシャ語の symposion, 飲み会, シンポジウム, sym-, 一緒に, posis, 飲み物, PIE*poi, 飲み物から, 語源的には poison, potion, potable から。古代ギリシャで、学者、学者、哲学者、賢者などが集まって酒を酌み交わし、賑やかで和やかな雰囲気の中で議論を交わす習慣から。

symposium

symposium: [18] A symposium is etymologically a ‘get-together for a drink’. The word comes via Latin symposium from Greek sumpósion, a derivative of sumpótēs ‘drinking companion’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix sun- ‘together’ and the base *pot- ‘drink’ (source of English poison, potion, etc). The Greeks favoured lubricating intellectual discussion with drink, and so the term sumpósion came to be used for a meeting which combined elements of party and intellectual interchange.
=> poison, potable, potion

symposium (n.)

1580s, "account of a gathering or party," from Latin symposium "drinking party, symposium," from Greek symposion "drinking party, convivial gathering of the educated" (related to sympotes "drinking companion"), from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn-) + posis "a drinking," from a stem of Aeolic ponen "to drink," cognate with Latin potare "to drink" (see potion).

The symposium usually followed a dinner, for the Greeks did not drink at meals. Its enjoyment was heightened by intellectual or agreeable conversation, by the introduction of music or dancers, and by other amusements. [Century Dictionary]

The sense of "a meeting on some subject" is from 1784. Reflecting the Greek fondness for mixing wine and intellectual discussion, the modern sense is especially from the word being used as a title for one of Plato's dialogues. Greek plural is symposia, and the leader of one is a symposiarch (c. 1600 in English). Related: Symposiac (adj.); symposial.

1. The symposium on AIDS research lasted two days.

エイズ研究の報告会は2日間続いた。

2.What have you learned from the symposium ？

今回の科学シンポジウムに参加しましたが、何を感じましたか。

3.He had been taking part in an international symposium on population.

人口問題に関する国際シンポジウムに参加していた。

4.Once I attended an international symposium on Dunhuang studies held at the Mogao Grottoes.

私が行ったとき、敦煌学国際学術シンポジウムが莫高窟で開催されていた。dd>
漢英文学から-現代散文

5.The specialists and scholars present at the symposium come from all corners of the country.

シンポジウムに出席した専門家や学者たちは全国各地から来ている。