convenientia
English
Noun
convenientia (uncountable)
- agreement
- symmetry
Quotations
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- 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.
- Words and things were united in their resemblance. Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
Latin
Etymology
From conveniēns, present active participle of conveniō (“convene”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.u̯e.niˈen.ti.a/, [kɔnu̯ɛniˈɛn̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.ve.niˈen.t͡si.a/, [koɱveniˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
convenientia f (genitive convenientiae); first declension
- accord, harmony, symmetry, agreement, conformity
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | convenientia | convenientiae |
| Genitive | convenientiae | convenientiārum |
| Dative | convenientiae | convenientiīs |
| Accusative | convenientiam | convenientiās |
| Ablative | convenientiā | convenientiīs |
| Vocative | convenientia | convenientiae |
Related terms
- convena
- conveniēns
- convenienter
- conveniō
- conventīcius
- conventiō
- conventō
- conventum
- conventus
Descendants
- Catalan: conveniència
- English: convenience
- French: convenance
- Italian: convenienza
- Portuguese: conveniência
- Romanian: conveniență, cuviință
- Spanish: conveniencia
Participle
convenientia
- nominative/accusative/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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- convenientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
- (ambiguous) the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus