continentia

Latin

Etymology

From continens +‎ -ia.

Adjective

continentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“limiting, enclosing; bordering, neighboring; connected, continuous, unbroken; continual, uninterrupted; (of temperament) moderate, temperate”)

Participle

continentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“holding together, containing; (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting”)

Noun

continentia f (genitive continentiae); first declension

  1. restraint, self-control
  2. abstinence, continence

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative continentia continentiae
genitive continentiae continentiārum
dative continentiae continentiīs
accusative continentiam continentiās
ablative continentiā continentiīs
vocative continentia continentiae

Descendants

  • Catalan: continència, contenença
  • English: continence, countenance
  • French: contenance, continence
  • Italian: continenza
  • Portuguese: continência, contenças
  • Spanish: continencia

References

  • “continentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “continentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "continentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • continentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • continentia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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