congrue
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin congruere. See congruous.
Verb edit
congrue (third-person singular simple present congrues, present participle congruing, simple past and past participle congrued)
- (obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
- Thou mayst not coldly set
- Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
- By letters congruing to that effect,
- The present death of Hamlet.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “congrue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Adjective edit
congrue
Italian edit
Adjective edit
congrue
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ɡru.e/, [ˈkɔŋɡruɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ɡru.e/, [ˈkɔŋɡrue]
Verb edit
congrue
References edit
- “congrue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- congrue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- congrue in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016