congruo

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin congruus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

congruo (feminine congrua, masculine plural congruos, feminine plural congruas)

  1. adequate
    • 1460, Rui Vasques, Corónica de Santa Maria de Iria:
      Et ordenou enã dita séé seteenta et dous canoĩgos a semellança dos sateenta et dous dicipulus de Ihesu Christo, prouendolles de congruo maantemẽto.
      And he ordered at that see seventy-two canons, after the seventy-two disciples of Jesus Christ, providing them with adequate sustenance

Derived terms

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin congruus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

congruo (feminine congrua, masculine plural congrui, feminine plural congrue)

  1. adequate, fair
  2. coherent, consistent

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ congruo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • congruo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ *gruō.

Pronunciation

Verb

congruō (present infinitive congruere, perfect active congruī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to come, unite, combine, run or meet together with someone
  2. to coincide or correspond with someone or something; agree with, be suited; accord, suit, fit
  3. to agree
    Synonyms: concordō, conveniō, condīcō, cōnsentiō, assentiō, concurrō, cōnstō, pangō
    Antonyms: dissideō, dissentiō, discordō, variō, abhorreō

Conjugation

  • The infinitive, congruere, is read as congruēre in Terence's Heauton Timorumenos.
   Conjugation of congruō (third conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present congruō congruis congruit congruimus congruitis congruunt
imperfect congruēbam congruēbās congruēbat congruēbāmus congruēbātis congruēbant
future congruam congruēs congruet congruēmus congruētis congruent
perfect congruī congruistī congruit congruimus congruistis congruērunt,
congruēre
pluperfect congrueram congruerās congruerat congruerāmus congruerātis congruerant
future perfect congruerō congrueris congruerit congruerimus congrueritis congruerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present congruam congruās congruat congruāmus congruātis congruant
imperfect congruerem congruerēs congrueret congruerēmus congruerētis congruerent
perfect congruerim congruerīs congruerit congruerīmus congruerītis congruerint
pluperfect congruissem congruissēs congruisset congruissēmus congruissētis congruissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present congrue congruite
future congruitō congruitō congruitōte congruuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives congruere congruisse
participles congruēns
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
congruendī congruendō congruendum congruendō

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: congrueren
  • Esperanto: kongrui

References

  • congruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • congruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • congruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.