contentus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈten.tus/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈten.tus/, [kon̪ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪us]

Perfect passive participle of contendō (“I stretch, strain, tense, make taut”).

contentus (feminine contenta, neuter contentum); first/second-declension participle

1. stretched, strained, tense, tight, on the stretch
2. (figuratively) eager, intent

First/second-declension adjective.

• contentiō

Perfect passive participle of contineō (“I hold together, contain”).

contentus (feminine contenta, neuter contentum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been held together, contained
2. (places) having been enclosed, bounded, limited

First/second-declension adjective.

contentus (feminine contenta, neuter contentum, comparative contentior, superlative contentissimus, adverb contentē); first/second-declension adjective

1. content, satisfied, eager, intent (+ ablative)

   Synonyms: libēns, intentus, intēnsus, prōmptus

   Antonym: invītus

   aliqua re contentus ― satisfied with something

First/second-declension adjective.

• “contentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contentus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “contentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contentus 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)
• contentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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)