convenientia

convenientia (uncountable)

1. agreement
2. symmetry

• 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.

From conveniēns, present active participle of conveniō (“convene”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.we.niˈen.ti.a/, [kɔn.wɛ.niˈɛn.ti.a]

convenientia f (genitive convenientiae); first declension

1. accord, harmony, symmetry, agreement, conformity

First-declension noun.

convenientia

1. nominative neuter plural of conveniēns
2. accusative neuter plural of conveniēns
3. vocative neuter plural of conveniēns

• 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)
• 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