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“coincide” in Latin
congruōto come, unite, combine, run or meet together with someone; to coincide or correspond with someone or something; agree wconcinōto sing, chant etc. together; to agree or harmonizecōnsentiōto agree, accord, harmonize; to unite upon; to plot or conspire
The English word coincide itself goes back to Latin cadō, through coincido.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
coincide
meet together in space, convenire in unum locum: (inter se) congruere (agree). (The words are found in this connection and order). convenire in unum locum atque inter se congruere (as Cic., Rosc, 22, 62, cum moltae causae convenisse unum in locum atque inter sese congruere videntur).
Agree together, concinere (cum aliquo aliqua re): consentire (PROP., and especially of agreement in opinion: but also by a sort of personification, of things: dative or with cum; also inter se): congruere (opposed to repugnare: with anybody, alicui or cum aliquo: also alicui rei or cum aliqua re; inter se, and absolutely: used also of coincidence in point of time). “To coincide in opinion with anybody,” is also idem sentire cum aliquo (not adjicere alicui, Görenz): and incidere in aliquem (e.g., in Diodorum, Cic.). Not to coincide in opinion, discrepare, dissentire, dissidere. His opinion does not coincide with the opinions, etc., sententia non constat cum - sententiis. [Vid: AGREE.] To coincide with any other event in point of time, eodem tempore quo aliud esse or fieri: in idem tempus incidere. Events which coincide in point of time, quae uno, or uno et eodem tempore sunt or fiunt.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for coincide?
- The usual Latin words for “coincide” are congruō, concinō, cōnsentiō. 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.