continens

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ti.nens/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ɪnẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ti.nens/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪inens]

continēns (genitive continentis, superlative continentissimus, adverb continenter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. limiting, enclosing
2. bordering, neighboring
3. connected, continuous, unbroken
4. continual, uninterrupted
5. (of temperament) moderate, temperate

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• incontinēns

• continenter
• contineō
• continuus

continēns f (genitive continentis); third declension

1. continent
2. mainland
3. (figuratively, rhetoric) The primary point.

Third-declension noun.

continēns (genitive continentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. holding together, containing
2. (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “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