continens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of contineō (“I hold together, contain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ti.nens/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ɪnẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ti.nens/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪inens]

Adjective

continēns (genitive continentis, superlative continentissimus, adverb continenter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. limiting, enclosing
2. bordering, neighboring
3. connected, continuous, unbroken
4. continual, uninterrupted
5. (of temperament) moderate, temperate

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	continēns			continentēs	continentia
Genitive	continentis			continentium
Dative	continentī			continentibus
Accusative	continentem	continēns		continentēs	continentia
Ablative	continentī			continentibus
Vocative	continēns			continentēs	continentia

Derived terms

• incontinēns

Related terms

• continenter
• contineō
• continuus

Noun

continēns f (genitive continentis); third declension

1. continent
2. mainland
3. (figuratively, rhetoric) The primary point.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	continēns	continentēs
Genitive	continentis	continentum
Dative	continentī	continentibus
Accusative	continentem	continentēs
Ablative	continente	continentibus
Vocative	continēns	continentēs

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: kontinent
• → Albanian: kontinent
• → Asturian: continente
• → Belarusian: кантынент (kantynjent)
• → Bulgarian: континент (kontinent)
• → Catalan: continent
• → Crimean Tatar: kontinent
• → Czech: kontinent
• → Danish: kontinent
• → Dutch: continent
• → English: continent
• → Estonian: kontinent
• → French: continent
  • Antillean Creole: kontinan
  • Haitian Creole: kontinan
  • → Romanian: continent
• → Galician: continente
• → Georgian: კონტინენტი (ḳonṭinenṭi)
• → German: Kontinent
• → Hungarian: kontinens
• → Italian: continente
• → Kyrgyz: континент (kontinent)
• → Latvian: kontinents
• → Lithuanian: kontinentas
• → Lower Sorbian: kontinent
• → Macedonian: континент (kontinent)
• → Maltese: kontinent
• → Mirandese: cuntinente
• → Norman: continnent
• → Norwegian: kontinent
• → Occitan: continent
• → Polish: kontynent
• → Portuguese: continente
• → Russian: континент (kontinent), контине́нтъ (kontinént) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Bezhta: кантинент (kantinent)
• → Carpathian Rusyn: контінент (kontinent)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: континент

  Latin script: kontinent

• → Slovak: kontinent
• → Slovene: kontinent
• → Spanish: continente
  • → Basque: kontinente
  • → Tagalog: kontinente
• → Swedish: kontinent
• → Turkmen: kontinent
• → Upper Sorbian: kontinent
• → Ukrainian: континент (kontynent)
• → Uzbek: kontinent
• → Yiddish: קאָנטינענט (kontinent)

Participle

continēns (genitive continentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. holding together, containing
2. (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	continēns			continentēs	continentia
Genitive	continentis			continentium
Dative	continentī			continentibus
Accusative	continentem	continēns		continentēs continentīs	continentia
Ablative	continente continentī1			continentibus
Vocative	continēns			continentēs	continentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “continens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “continens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• continens 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)
• continens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the continent: (terra) continens (B. G. 5. 8. 2)
    
  • to have the same boundaries; to be coterminous: continentem esse terrae or cum terra (Fam. 15. 2. 2)
    
  • to behave with moderation: moderatum, continentem esse