# converse
## English
### Etymology 1

From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kənˈvɜːs/
* (US) enPR: kənvûrs', IPA: /kənˈvɝs/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
* Audio (UK):(file)

#### Verb

converse (third-person singular simple present converses, present participle conversing, simple past and past participle conversed)
* (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
    Synonyms: (nonstandard) conversate, (informal) convo, (formal) discourse
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:Companions […] That do converse and waste the time together.
** 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:We had conversed so often on that subject.
* (followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
** a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.
** 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
** 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
* (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
** 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety

##### Derived terms

* conversable
* conversancy
* conversation
* converseness
* conversible

##### Translations
#### Noun

converse (uncountable)
* (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
** 1727, [Edward Young], “Satire V. On Women.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]
** 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter III, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 93:[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 177:She had around her gay converse, in which she had no share; and laughter, in which she was little tempted to join.
** 1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC:In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse.
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 26:[S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.

### Etymology 2

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒnvɜːs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: kŏn'vûrs, IPA: /ˈkɑnvɝs/

#### Adjective

converse (not comparable)
* Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
    a converse proposition

#### Noun

converse (plural converses)
* The opposite or reverse.
* (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
    All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.
* (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
* (graph theory) Synonym of transpose

##### Derived terms

* conversely

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Cervones, conserve, coveners, encovers

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

converse f sg
* feminine singular of convers

### Verb

converse
* inflection of converser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Verb

converse
* inflection of conversar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* convergé (rare)

### Verb

converse
* third-person singular past historic of convergere

### Anagrams

* conserve, scernevo

## Latin
### Participle

converse
* vocative masculine singular of conversus

## Portuguese
### Verb

converse
* inflection of conversar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /komˈbeɾse/ [kõmˈbeɾ.se]
* Rhymes: -eɾse
* Syllabification: con‧ver‧se

### Verb

converse
* inflection of conversar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative