different between convenient vs covenant

English

Etymology

From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?vi?ni?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?vinj?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?ve?nient

Adjective

convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.

   Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy

   Antonym: inconvenient

2. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
   • Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.

   • 1640', Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man

     […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.

Related terms

• convene
• convenience
• conveniently

Translations

Further reading

• convenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• convenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conveniens, convenientem, possibly a borrowing (first appears in 1507).

Adjective

convenient (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

   Antonym: inconvenient

Derived terms

• convenientment

Related terms

• conveniència
• convenir

References

Further reading

• “convenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “convenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “convenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveni?

English

Alternative forms

• covenaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English covenaunt, borrowed from Old French covenant (“agreement”), from Latin conveni?ns, convenientem (“agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveni? (“to agree”). Cognate with convenient and convene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?v.?n.?nt/, /?k?v.n?nt/

Noun

covenant (plural covenants)

1. (law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
2. (law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
3. A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
4. An incidental clause in an agreement.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:pact
• Thesaurus:agreement

Related terms

• Ark of the Covenant
• covenant of salt
• covenant of title
• New Covenant
• Old Covenant
• religious covenant
• biblical covenant
• exclusionary covenants
• Mosaic covenant
• New Covenant theology
• Covenant marriage
• Covenant theology
• Covenantal nomism

Translations

Verb

covenant (third-person singular simple present covenants, present participle covenanting, simple past and past participle covenanted)

1. To enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.
2. (law) To enter a formal agreement.
3. (law) To bind oneself in contract.
4. (law) To make a stipulation.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• covenant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• covenant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• covenant at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “covenant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Old French

Etymology

From Latin conveni?ns, conveni?ntem (“agreeing, agreeable, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveni? (“to agree”).

Verb

covenant

1. present participle of covenir

Noun

covenant m (oblique plural covenanz or covenantz, nominative singular covenanz or covenantz, nominative plural covenant)

1. covenant

Descendants

• English: covenant
• French: convenant