subvenir

• subvindre

Borrowed from Latin subvenīre.

subvenir (first-person singular present subvinc, first-person singular preterite subvinguí, past participle subvingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to provide for, to meet [with a ‘expenses, needs’]

• “subvenir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “subvenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “subvenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “subvenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin subveniō. Doublet of souvenir.

• IPA^(key): /syb.və.niʁ/

• Audio:

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subvenir

1. (intransitive) to provide for, to meet [with à ‘expenses, needs’]

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

• subvention

• “subvenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin subvenīre. Doublet of suvenir.

• IPA^(key): /subbeˈniɾ/ [suβ̞.β̞eˈniɾ], /subeˈniɾ/ [su.β̞eˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: sub‧ve‧nir

subvenir (first-person singular present subvengo, first-person singular preterite subvine, past participle subvenido)

1. (intransitive) to provide for, to meet [with a ‘expenses, needs’]
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 58:

     Nada puede igualar a la felicidad de sus habitantes, que no tienen que trabajar para subvenir a las necesidades de la vida, ni están sujetos a a miserias y dolores que afligen al común de los mortales.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “subvenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024