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“assembly” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

assembly
of persons: conventus (assembly as meeting at a certain or appointed place): coetus (assembly as meeting to assist in a common purpose): concio (assembly as summoned to listen to an address; e.g., of the people, of soldiers): circulus (assembly as circle conversing together, or standing round a speaker): corona (crowd encircling a speaker): consessus (a sitting assembly; e.g., of judges, spectators, etc.): concilium (a summoned assembly, in which one declares what is to be done): consilium (an assembly in which each person is to declare what he thinks should be done): comitia, plur., is an historical term for the meeting of the Roman people: acroasis (ἀκρόασις, a conversazione: an assembly where one or more entertain the rest by singing, reading aloud, etc.). A numerous assembly, celeber conventus: celebritas (so far as a place is visited by numbers; is of much resort): frequentia (so far as an assembly is in itself numerous: so far as sufficient numbers are present). To summon an assembly, concionem vocare, advocare, or convocare: anybody to an assembly, aliquem ad concilium vocare: to hold an assembly, concilium or concionem habere: to dismiss an assembly, concilium or concionem dimittere (all these, of course, to be usedaccording to the meaning of concio, concilium, etc.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for assembly?
The usual Latin words for “assembly” are conveniō, coitus, cōntiō; also circulus, corōna, cōnsīdō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.