“…2 In the Dictionarium latino-hipanicum, Antonio de Nebrija -author of the first grammar book on Castilian -defines convivo, is, xi: as 'to live in one' (Nebrija 1492: 42). 3 As jurist Raja Sakrani and historian Max Deardorff demonstrate, political discourses recover this meaning, but it does not entail that a collaborative form of conviviality took place in Al-Andalus (Deardorff 2016;Sakrani 2016). 4 The difference between the Latin definitions in Spanish and Portuguese is subtle: both mean to live together but, in Castilian, intimacy seems to play a more significant role.…”