来自拉丁语 symposium,饮酒会,讨论会,来自希腊语 symposion,饮酒会,讨论会,来自 sym-, 一起,posis,喝,饮,来自 PIE*poi,喝,词源同 poison,potion,potable.来自古希腊时期文人、 学士、哲学家、智者等欢聚一堂举杯共饮,在欢快的气氛中就某一话题进行热烈探讨的习俗。
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.
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