competentia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

compĕtentĭa, ae, f. [competo] (postclass.),

I a meeting together , agreement : membrorum inter se, symmetry , Gell. 1, 1, 3; cf. Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 19, 21.—

II Esp., of the stars, conjunction , aspect : nasci ad eandem competentiam (sc. siderum), Gell. 14, 1, 26; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 24 al.