conventum Latin · revision 35787

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la veniō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conventum''' ''n'' (genitive conventī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|conveniō|t=to come together, agree]], the neuter of its perfect participle used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|com-]] and [[m|la|veniō|t=to come]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*gʷn-je/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*gʷm-ie/o-|t=to come]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of agreements kept without laws, and in Cicero,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of constancy and truth in what is said and agreed.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was mainly a legal word for an agreement between parties: Cicero has ''stāre conventīs'', to abide by agreements, and the pair ''pactum conventum'', “a pact agreed”, or ''pacta conventa'', which recurs in the jurists and in a formula from Baetica.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Livy speaks of arbiters of agreements, and Gellius of a secret agreement between two people about changing the order of letters.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) The word is still used in the Code of Justinian in 530.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of agreements and in the phrase ''pactum conventum''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of arbiters of agreements.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a secret agreement.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 530 AD – A law in the Code of Justinian uses it.^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|agreement]], [[m|en|compact]], [[m|en|covenant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''pactum conventum'', ''pacta conventa'': an agreed pact, agreements stipulated.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is distinct from [[conventus]], an assembly or meeting, though both come from the same verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}