conventus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of conveniō (“convene, assemble”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈu̯en.tus/, [kɔnˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈven.tus/, [koɱˈvɛn̪t̪us]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | conventus | conventa | conventum | conventī | conventae | conventa | |
Genitive | conventī | conventae | conventī | conventōrum | conventārum | conventōrum | |
Dative | conventō | conventō | conventīs | ||||
Accusative | conventum | conventam | conventum | conventōs | conventās | conventa | |
Ablative | conventō | conventā | conventō | conventīs | |||
Vocative | convente | conventa | conventum | conventī | conventae | conventa |
Noun
conventus m (genitive conventūs); fourth declension
- meeting, gathering, congregation, judicial assembly
- enterprise, corporation; an association of merchants
- (rare) agreement, covenant
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Albanian: kuvend
- Asturian: conventu
- Aromanian: cuvendã
- Basque: komentu
- Bourguignon: côvant
- Catalan: convent
- English: convent, covent
- Franco-Provençal: covent
- French: couvent, convent
- Friulian: convent
- Greek: κουβέντα (kouvénta)
- Megleno-Romanian: cuvint
- Italian: convento
- Portuguese: convento
- Romanian: cuvânt
- Sardinian: cumbentu, cunventu, cuventu
- Spanish: convento
- Venetian: convento
References
- “conventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conventus 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)
- conventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to convene the assizes (used of a provincial governor): conventus agere (B. G. 1. 54)
- to convene the assizes (used of a provincial governor): conventus agere (B. G. 1. 54)
- “conventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “conventus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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