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continenti

continenti is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the present active participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.31.2: Itaque ad omnes casus subsidia comparabat. Nam et frumentum ex agris cotidie in castra conferebat et, quae gravissime adflictae erant naves, earum materia atque aere ad reliquas reficiendas utebatur et quae ad eas res erant usui ex continenti comportari iubebat.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 8.4.12: Continenti incendio ardere crederes saltum et vix inter flammas agminibus relictum locum. Hic calor stupentia membra commovit, paulatimque spiritus, quem continuerat rigor, meare libere coepit.

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.