convive

American  

[kon-vahyv, kawn-veev] / ˈkɒn vaɪv, kɔ̃ˈviv /

noun

plural

convives

1. an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker.

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Etymology

Origin of convive

1640–50; < French < Latin convīva table-companion, guest, equivalent to con- con- + -vīva, derivative of vīvere to live. See vital

Example Sentences

First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There in the full convive we; afterwards, As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall Concur together, severally entreat him.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

It was impossible, unless the convive sat as a centre-piece in the middle, to put another guest at that table.

From A Little Dinner at Timmin's by Thackeray, William Makepeace

"Au banquet de la vie, infortune convive, J'apparus un jour, et je meurs; Je meurs, et sur ma tombe, ou lentement j'arrive, Nul ne viendra verser des pleurs."

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The clatter of some late convive seating himself also caused him to turn his head.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard

These thoughts made the field-marshal unusually gay and talkative, and the regent protested that Munnich had never been a more agreeable convive than precisely to-day.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel