Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, from con- + veniō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.

• (British) IPA: /kənˈviːn/
• (America, Canada) IPA: /kənˈvin/
• (Australia) IPA: /kənˈviːn/, [kənˈvɪin]

convene (convenes, present participle convening; simple past and past participle convened)

1. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC ↗:

     In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.

2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
   • 1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James:

     The Parliament of Scotland now convened.

   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC ↗:

     Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.

3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. (transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

   To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.

• German: zusammenkommen
• Portuguese: unir
• Russian: собира́ться
• Spanish: convenir, juntarse

• German: zusammentreten, sich versammeln
• Russian: собира́ться
• Spanish: constituirse

• German: einberufen, zusammenrufen, versammeln
• Russian: созыва́ть
• Spanish: convocar, reunir

• German: einberufen, vorladen
• Russian: вызыва́ть
• Spanish: convocar, citar