continentia
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
continentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“limiting, enclosing; bordering, neighboring; connected, continuous, unbroken; continual, uninterrupted; (of temperament) moderate, temperate”)
Participle edit
continentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“holding together, containing; (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting”)
Noun edit
continentia f (genitive continentiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | continentia | continentiae |
| Genitive | continentiae | continentiārum |
| Dative | continentiae | continentiīs |
| Accusative | continentiam | continentiās |
| Ablative | continentiā | continentiīs |
| Vocative | continentia | continentiae |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: continència, contenença
- English: continence, countenance
- French: contenance, continence
- Italian: continenza
- Portuguese: continência, contenças
- Spanish: continencia
References edit
- “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016