congrue
English
Etymology
Latin congruere. See congruous.
Verb
congrue (third-person singular simple present congrues, present participle congruing, simple past and past participle congrued)
- (obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
- Thou mayst not coldly set
- Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
- By letters congruing to that effect,
- The present death of Hamlet.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for congrue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Adjective
congrue
- feminine singular of congru
Italian
Adjective
congrue
- feminine plural of congruo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ɡru.e/, [ˈkɔŋɡruɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ɡru.e/, [ˈkɔŋɡrue]
Verb
congrue
- second-person singular present active imperative of congruō
References
- “congrue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- congrue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- congrue in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016