# contendo
## Galician
### Verb

contendo
* gerund of conter

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈtɛn.do/
* Rhymes: -ɛndo
* Hyphenation: con‧tèn‧do

### Verb

contendo
* first-person singular present indicative of contendere

## Latin
### Etymology

From con- (“with, together”) +‎ tendō (“stretch, extend; contend”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈten.doː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈten.do/, [kon̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]

### Verb

contendō (present infinitive contendere, perfect active contendī, supine contentum); third conjugation
* to hurry
* to stretch, draw tight, make taut, strain
* to place together in comparison, compare, contrast
* (music) to tune (by stretching the strings)
* (of weapons) to shoot, hurl, dart, throw
* (of places) to extend, reach, stretch
* (with infinitive) to exert oneself vigorously to do something, apply oneself with zeal to, go to
* (in auctions) to vie with in bidding, bid against
* (with accusative or infinitive) to assert, affirm earnestly, maintain or contend energetically
* (intransitive) to dispute, fight, contend against, compete, vie with
* (intransitive, often with ab) to demand, ask, solicit, entreat, beg earnestly, seek to gain
* (intransitive, figuratively) to exert, pursue or strive for eagerly, strain eagerly, stretch
* (intransitive, figuratively) to seek to arrive at, march, journey hastily to, hasten, press forward, go, advance rapidly

#### Synonyms

* (demand): adfecto, peto, repeto, prehenso, efflagito, exigo, exoro
* (strive): lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, appetō, temptō, affectō, adnītor, labōrō, tendō, quaerō, īnsequor, studeō, ēnītor, pugnō, mōlior, perīclitor, nītor, spectō
* (fight): lūctor, repugnō, pugnō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, serō, dēcertō
* (compare): comparō, aequō, cōnferō
* (affirm): affirmō, firmō, aiō, arguō, fīgō
* (dispute): dēcertō, certō
* (seek): requīrō, quaerō, studeō, spectō, petō, appetō, quaerō, affectō, cupiō, concupiō, expetō, dēstinō, sitiō, aveō, voveō, circumspiciō, tendō

#### Derived terms

* contentē
* contentiō
* contentus

#### Related terms

* attendō
* contentiōsē
* contentiōsus
* dētendō
* distendō
* extendō
* intendō
* obtendō
* ostendō
* pertendō
* portendō
* praetendō
* prōtendō
* retendō
* subtendō
* tendō

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Central Italian: contennere
** Italian: contendere ⇒ contesa
** Sicilian: cuntènniri
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** ⇒ Franco-Provençal: countent, countentin
** Old French: contendre ⇒ acontendre, recontendre, contenderie
*** Middle French: contendre ⇒ contendant, contentif
*** → Middle English: contenden
**** English: contend
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: contendre
** Old Occitan: contendre, contener ⇒ conten, contenda, contena
*** ⇒ Béarnese: countendè (“joint territory subject to disputes”)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Portuguese: contender ⇒ contenda
** Spanish: contender ⇒ contienda
* → Proto-Brythonic: *konten (noun)
** Middle Welsh: kynhen
*** Welsh: cynnen ⇒ cynhenna
** → Old Irish: contan
*** Irish: cointinn

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “contendere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1103

### Further reading

* “contendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “contendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* contendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnes nervos in aliqua re contendere to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnibus viribusor nervis contendere, ut to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: contendere et laborare, ut to contend with some one for the pre-eminence: contendere cum aliquo de principatu (Nep. Arist. 1) to change one's route and march towards..: averso itinere contendere in... to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelio equestri contendere to row hard: remis contendere (ambiguous) to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse (ambiguous) to be satisfied with a little: paucis, parvo contentum esse (ambiguous) to be content with 12 per cent at compound interest: centesimis cum anatocismo contentum esse (Att. 5. 21. 12)

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

contendo
* gerund of conter

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

contendo
* first-person singular present indicative of contender