convenientia

English

Noun

convenientia (uncountable)

1. agreement
2. symmetry

Quotations

• 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

  Words and things were united in their resemblance. Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
  'Convenientia' connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.

Latin

Etymology

From conveniēns, present active participle of conveniō (“convene”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.u̯e.niˈen.ti.a/, [kɔnu̯ɛniˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ve.niˈen.t͡si.a/, [koɱveniˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

convenientia f (genitive convenientiae); first declension

1. accord, harmony, symmetry, agreement, conformity

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	convenientia	convenientiae
Genitive	convenientiae	convenientiārum
Dative	convenientiae	convenientiīs
Accusative	convenientiam	convenientiās
Ablative	convenientiā	convenientiīs
Vocative	convenientia	convenientiae

Related terms

• convena
• conveniēns
• convenienter
• conveniō
• conventīcius
• conventiō
• conventō
• conventum
• conventus

Descendants

• Catalan: conveniència
• English: convenience
• French: convenance
• Italian: convenienza
• Portuguese: conveniência
• Romanian: conveniență, cuviință
• Spanish: conveniencia

Participle

convenientia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of conveniēns

References

• “convenientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “convenientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convenientia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• convenientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus