Convene
late Middle English: from Latin convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire(“come together”).
etymonline
convene (v.)
early 15c., (intransitive) "to come together, meet in the same place," usually for some public purpose, from Old French convenir "to come together; to suit, agree," from Latin convenire "to come together, meet together, assemble; unite, join, combine; agree with, accord; be suitable or proper (to)," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + venire "to come," from a suffixed form of PIE root *gwa- "to go, come."
Transitive sense of "call together, cause to assemble" is from 1590s. Related: Convened; convener; convening.
