🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

convergir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /kõveʁˈʒiɾ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Converge/kənˈvɜːrdʒ/
verbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"As opiniões parecem convergir para uma solução."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To tend or move toward one point or a common result; to come together from different directions.

    "Ambulances and police cars began to converge on the central plaza following the incident."
  2. 2

    To approach intersection or meet at a single point, as lines or paths.

    "The two main railway tracks converge just outside the central tunnel."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin root convergere, composed of 'com-' (together) and 'vergere' (to bend or incline). Entering the English lexicon in the mid-17th century, it initially described physical paths or lines tending toward a common point before broadening into abstract scientific and metaphorical domains.

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