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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016