congrue

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin congruere. See congruous.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
   • c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:

     Thou mayst not coldly set

     Our sovereign process; which imports at full,

     By letters congruing to that effect,

     The present death of Hamlet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “congrue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Adjective

congrue

1. feminine singular of congru

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Italian

Adjective

congrue

1. feminine plural of congruo

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) congrue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of congruō

References

• “congrue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• congrue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• congrue in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016