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continentem

continentem is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the present active participle accusative singular masculine or present active participle accusative singular feminine.

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.27.5: Caesar questus quod, cum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem ab se petissent, bellum sine causa intulissent, ignoscere se imprudentiae dixit obsidesque imperavit;

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.