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Latin
Etymology
From continens + -ia.
Adjective
continentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“limiting, enclosing; bordering, neighboring; connected, continuous, unbroken; continual, uninterrupted; (of temperament) moderate, temperate”)
Participle
continentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of continēns (“holding together, containing; (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting”)
Noun
continentia f (genitive continentiae); first declension
- restraint, self-control
- abstinence, continence
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016