# continens
## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

continēns (genitive continentis, superlative continentissimus, adverb continenter); third-declension one-termination adjective
* limiting, enclosing
* bordering, neighboring
* connected, continuous, unbroken
* continual, uninterrupted
* (of temperament) moderate, temperate

#### Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

#### Derived terms

* incontinēns

#### Related terms

* continenter
* contineō
* continuus

### Noun

continēns f (genitive continentis); third declension
* continent
* mainland
* (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
* holding together, containing
* (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting

#### Declension

Third-declension participle.
$^1$When 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, 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