convenientia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →convenio, convenire, conveni, conventus:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be appropriate to, fit, be correctly shaped/consistent; harmonize, agree, tally;; meet/assemble; go to meet; come together; (have sex); converge; visit/approach;; resort to; sue, prosecute, take legal action; be agreed upon/arranged (PASS);; it agrees/came together/is agreed/asserted; [bene ~ nobis=>we're on good terms];
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part. - Entry →convenientia, convenientiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
agreement (things), consistency; harmony (music); arrangement; convention;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg. - Entry →conveniens, convenientis (gen.), convenientior -or -us, convenientissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fitting; appropriate; comfortable; internally consistent, harmonious;; agreed, conventional, based on agreement; agreeable, compliant;
acc. pl. (n.)nom. pl. (n.)voc. pl. (n.)
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...magis hanc timet quam illam dolet. Virtus enim convenientia constat: omnia opera eius cum ipsa concordant et congruunt..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...scripsit, quaedam non ridicula, sed cuilibet severissimae orationi convenientia eleganter dicta et proprio quodam lepore iucunda: quae sunt..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quoniam rectum factum katÒryvma—, recta igitur effectio, item convenientia, denique ipsum bonum, quod in eo positum..."
