Caucus

Are you going to bring your own caucus the next time you attend a symposium?
 
The origins of the word caucus are unknown. The Caucus Club of Boston, a social and political club in the 1760s, may have taken its name from the Greek word kaukos (a drinking cup). Or, some suggest that perhaps the word caucus has its origins in the Algonquian word caucauasu (a counselor, elder, or adviser).
 
The verb ‘to caucus’ meaning to meet or to confer is from the 1850s.
 
What does a caucus have to do with a symposium?
 
The Latin word symposium meant a drinking party or a convivial gathering of community leaders; from syn- (together) + posis (a drinking), from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root po(i) (to drink; potable).
 
Image: A mid-6th century BCE East Greek or Cypriot terracotta kantharos (drinking cup).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/239954
 
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
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