'Convivial' is Latin for 'living together' — from 'vivere' (to live). The spirit of shared feasting.
Friendly, lively, and enjoyable. Relating to or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company.
From Late Latin 'convīviālis' (pertaining to a feast or shared meal), an adjective formed from Latin 'convīvium' (a feast, a banquet, a living together in common), itself composed of 'con-' (together, with, in common) + 'vīvere' (to live), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (to live). The root *gʷeyh₃- is one of the most important PIE roots, generating Latin 'vita' (life), 'vivus' (alive), 'victus' (nourishment, mode of life), Greek 'bios' (βίος, life, way of life) and 'zōē' (ζωή, animal life), and English 'quick' in its original sense of 'alive' (as in 'the quick and the dead'). A 'convīvium' was literally a 'living
Plato's 'Symposium' — one of the most important philosophical works ever written — is set at a 'convivium' (the Latin translation of Greek 'symposion,' a drinking-together). The guests at Agathon's banquet take turns giving speeches about the nature of love, culminating in Socrates' account of Diotima's teaching that love is a ladder from physical beauty to the beauty of the Good itself. The greatest philosophical dialogue in the Western tradition is, etymologically, a record of convivial
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