convene
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, from con- + veniō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
Pronunciation Verbconvene (convenes, present participle convening; simple past and past participle convened)
- (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.
- (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.
(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. - (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
- (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
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