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contineat

contineat is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.11.2: Huic mandat, Remos reliquosque Belgas adeat atque in officio contineat Germanosque, qui auxilio a Belgis arcessiti dicebantur, si per vim navibus flumen transire conentur, prohibeat.

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.