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Latin
Etymology
From conveniō + -tiō. Compare with its early contracted form cōntiō.
Noun
conventiō f (genitive conventiōnis); third declension
- meeting of people
- assembly
- agreement, covenant, convention, compact
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “conventio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conventio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conventio 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)
- conventio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.