continentia

Latin

Participle

continentia

1. nominative neuter plural of continēns
2. accusative neuter plural of continēns
3. vocative neuter plural of continēns

Etymology

From continens.

Noun

continentia f (genitive continentiae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case	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
• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “continentia”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “continentia” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• continentia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016