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contenta

contenta is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine or perfect passive participle vocative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of contendo, “strive, hasten; compare; assert”.

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.40: … in ultimas terras exportandum! non enim potest ea natura quae tantum facinus commiserit hoc uno scelere esse contenta: necesse est semper aliquid eius modi moliatur, necesse est in simili audacia perfidiaque versetur.

Ovid, Heroides 17.125: Contenta est oculis hominum mea forma probari;

All forms of contineo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.