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Convive

[kon-vahyv; Fr. kawn-veev] Origin

con·vive

[kon-vahyv; Fr. kawn-veev]
noun, plural -vives [-vahyvz; Fr. -veev] .
an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker.

Origin:
1640–50; < French < Latin convīva table-companion, guest, equivalent to con- con- + -vīva, derivative of vīvere to live. See vital
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Convive is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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convive
1640s, from Fr. convive, from L. conviva "one who feasts with others," from convivere (see convivial). In mid-19c., also "woman 'who lives in the same house with a number of others.' "
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