Translation
to coincide; to agree, to tally
Word origin
From medieval Latin coincidere, built as co- (together) plus in (on) plus cadere (to fall). Two things that coincide fall on the same spot, which was originally a statement about geometry before it became one about diaries.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- coincidere
- English cognates
- coincide, incident, accident, cadence
Grammar
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
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The festival coincided with the last day of the course.
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His words tally with the facts.
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The two dates coincide in that week.
Do not try to split it. Ko- is not an Esperanto prefix - the language uses - for togetherness, as in kunlabori and kunveni - and incidi is not a verb here at all. Koincid- is one indivisible borrowed root. The three-part decomposition is completely real, but it happened in Latin: co- plus in plus cadere, to fall together onto the same point. Knowing that fixes the word in your memory and buys you nothing you can reuse, which is the normal deal with international roots.
The falling is worth keeping in mind, though, because it explains the range. Two lines that meet everywhere coincide in the geometric sense; two events on the same date coincide in the diary sense; two accounts of the same evening coincide when they agree. Esperanto uses the one verb for all three, and the cadere behind it is the same verb that gives incident (something that falls in), accident (something that falls to you) and cadence (the falling of a voice).
Coincidence, the noun, is two different words. Koincido is the fact of two things falling together - koincido . Hazardo is chance itself, the luck of the thing, and it is what you reach for when the point is that nobody planned it: , sheer coincidence. English collapses both into coincidence and Esperanto does not, so choose deliberately: koincido describes the overlap, explains it.
Construction. The verb is intransitive and takes for the other party: . Two subjects can share it without a preposition - - and samtempe, at the same time, does the adverbial job when you want to say it about a verb instead.
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