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+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔŋ.ɡru.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔŋ.ɡru.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''congruō''' (present infinitive congruere, perfect active congruī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ Terence has the present infinitive ''congruēre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|*gruō|t1=with, together]], the verbal element also found in [[m|la|ingruō|t=to fall upon]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Its origin is doubtful: the OLD suggests a cognate in [[grc|ἔχραον|tr=ékhraon]], and the TLL reports W. Schulze's comparison with the same Greek verb and [[lt|griūti|t=to collapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence has it first, in the ''Phormio'': “look, everything matches! they all agree”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense, to come or run together, is rare, as in Valerius Flaccus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Usually it means to correspond or agree: Cicero describes health as the harmony of the elements that make up the body, and he uses it of statements that are consistent with the case.^(OLD 2012) It also means to coincide in time, to resemble, and to be fitting or suitable.^(OLD 2012) Of people, it is to agree in opinion, as Cicero says that the Academics and Peripatetics agreed in substance but differed in names.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of things that agree and coincide.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of agreement in health, argument and doctrine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a plant resembling another.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come together, unite, combine; to [[m|en|blend]] harmoniously.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|correspond]], accord, be consistent; to [[m|en|coincide]]; to resemble.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be appropriate, suit, fit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons, to [[m|en|agree]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[congruentia]]

+ * [[congruus]]

+ * [[incongruēns]]

+ * [[congruēns]]

+ * [[congruenter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}