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English
Noun
convenientia (uncountable)
- agreement
- 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
Noun
convenientia f (genitive convenientiae); first declension
- accord, harmony, symmetry, agreement, conformity
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
convenientia
- 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus