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“meet” in Latin
efferōto bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport; to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, buryoccurrōto run into; to go to meet; to charge, rush to attack; to meet, go to, come tooccursōto run to; to go to meet; to charge, rush to attack; to approach, come towardsconcurrōto run with others, flock together; to meet, clash, dash together, strike one another; to take refugeconveniōto convene, assemble, gather, meet or come together; to accost, to call on; to sue, to let be summoned to court
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
meet v.
By accident, offendere aliquem (to hit anybody or anything accidentally; of persons or things; hence, to meet): incurrere in aliquem or aliquid (of persons or things; to run against; hence, to meet): incidere in aliquem (to fall in with a person). (The words are found in this connection and order.) incurrere atque incidere in aliquem: occurrere alicui (to run against him; to meet) : se obviam ferre or efferre (of the person who meets us).
To encounter, obviam ire: occurrere: occursare: se obviam ferre or efferre [SYN. in ENCOUNTER]: concurrere or congredi cum aliquo (fight with). To meet death fearlessly, acriter se morti offerre: promte necem subire (of a violent death): to meet danger, periculo obviam ire, se offerre, se opponere, or objicere: wherever we go, some historical recollection meets us, quācumque ingredimur in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus (Cic.): sometimes convenire (to have an interview with: Naucrates, quem convenire colui, in navi non erat, Plaut.): to meet anybody’s objections, quae aliquis contra dicit, refellere.
MEET WITH, TRANS., (a) OBTAIN, RECEIVE. [Vid: these words.] (b) to have anything happen to one, contingere aliquem (of good things): accidere alicui (of evils): to meet with opposition, impugnari (of an opinion): to meet with a repulse, recusari: I meet with a misfortune, malum mihi accidit [Vid: HAPPEN]: INTRANS.,
In a friendly manner, convenire or congredi inter se (purposely): concurrere inter se (accidentally).
In a hostile manner, (inter se) concurrere (of corporeal substances, or of combatants): (inter se) congredi (of two combatants or two armies): signa inter se conferre: cum infestis signis concurrere (of two armies): collidi inter se (of ships running against each other). IMPROPR.,
Meet together, (a) PROP., coire: convenire: cogi: se congregare: confluere: frequentes convenire. [SYN. in ASSEMBLE.] (b) Figuratively, i. e., to concur [Vid: CONCUR]: many causes seem to have met together, multae causae convenisse unum in locum atque inter se congruere videntur (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for meet?
- The usual Latin words for “meet” are efferō, occurrō, occursō; also concurrō, conveniō. 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.