convive

Borrowed from French convive.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈvaɪv/
• Rhymes: -aɪv

convive (third-person singular simple present convives, present participle conviving, simple past and past participle convived)

1. (obsolete) To feast with others

convive (plural convives)

1. (obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet
2. (obsolete) a feast or banquet
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 271-4:

     First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
     There, in the full convive we; afterwards,
     As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
     Concur together, severally entreat him

• convivial

Inherited from Old French convive, from Latin convīvium. Compare Friulian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish convivio.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.viv/

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convive m or f by sense (plural convives)

1. guest at a meal
   • 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays :

     Prothé passait parmi les convives, proposant des bières et des steaks de crocodile grillé.

     Prothé passed among the guests, offering beers and grilled crocodile steaks.

• “convive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

convive

1. inflection of convivir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

convive

1. third-person singular present indicative of convivere

• vincevo

convīve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of convīvō

convive

1. inflection of conviver:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

convive

1. inflection of convivir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative