convene

Meanings

1. To come together; to meet; to unite.
2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
3. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.