English

Noun

convenientia ‎(uncountable)

1. agreement
2. symmetry

Quotations

• 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

  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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.we.niˈen.ti.a/

Noun

convenientia f ‎(genitive convenientiae); first declension

1. accord, harmony, symmetry, agreement, conformity

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

Descendants

Participle

convenientia

1. nominative neuter plural of conveniēns
2. accusative neuter plural of conveniēns
3. 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “convenientia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus