continentia

== 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 self-control, self-restraint, moderation abstinence, continence ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== 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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016