contentum

contentum is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular masculine or perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter or supine nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural masculine.

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

Found 67 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.64.2: peditatu quem antea habuerit se fore contentum dicit, neque fortunam temptaturum aut in acie dimicaturum, sed, quoniam abundet equitatu, perfacile esse factu frumentationibus pabulationibusque Romanos prohibere,

Lucan, Civil War 8.815: Contentum patriae multos donasse triumphos.

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.