convenio
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈu̯e.ni.oː/, [kɔnˈu̯ɛnioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈve.ni.o/, [koɱˈvɛːnio]
Verb edit
conveniō (present infinitive convenīre, perfect active convēnī, supine conventum); fourth conjugation
- to convene, to assemble, to meet together
- to accost, to call on
- to sue, to let be summoned to court
- a. 228, Dig., Ulpianus libro 25 ad edictum, 11.7.14.7:
- Potest tamen distingui et misericordiae modus, ut in hoc fuerit misericors vel pius qui funeravit, ut eum sepeliret, ne insepultus iaceret, non etiam ut suo sumptu fecerit: quod si iudici liqueat, non debet eum qui convenitur absolvere: quis enim sine pietatis intentione alienum cadaver funerat?
- It is nonetheless possible to distinguish the mode of kindheartedness, wherein when someone was kind or pious as to inter someone, so he is not unburied, he would not do so from his own pocket: if this is clear to the judge, he must not acquit him who is sued: for who inters a strange body without any stirring of piety?
- to be fit, to be suited
- to be agreed upon
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Descendants edit
- Asturian: convenir
- Catalan: convenir
- English: convene
- French: convenir
- Friulian: convignî
- Italian: convenire
- Occitan: convenir, convendre, convénguer
- Old French: covenir
- Old Galician-Portuguese: convĩir
- Romanian: conveni, cuveni
- Sicilian: cummèniri
- Spanish: convenir
- Venetian: convegner, convegnir, scovignir
References edit
- “convenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “convenio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- convenio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere
- how is this consistent? how are we to reconcile this...: quī convenit?
- to meet a person (accidentally or intentionally) and talk with him: convenire aliquem
- the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)
- to meet for elections: comitiis (Abl.) convenire
- peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
- to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-Latinism, as if from *convenium. Compare Latin conventum (“pact, agreement, treaty”) and Spanish convenir (“to agree”); both from Latin conveniō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
convenio m (plural convenios)
- agreement
- Synonym: acuerdo
- covenant
- (diplomacy) convention (an international agreement)
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Further reading edit
- “convenio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014