contentio

== Latin == === Etymology === From contendō + -tiō. === Noun === contentiō f (genitive contentiōnis); third declension stretching, tension competition, rivalry struggle, effort controversy, contention, dispute ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “contentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “contentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “contentio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.