Latin

Noun

competentia f ‎(genitive competentiae); first declension

1. agreement, symmetry, correspondence
2. (of the stars) conjunction
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) expertise

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Russian: компете́нция ‎(kompeténcija)

References

• competentia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• COMPETENTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “competentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.