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continentiae

continentiae is a Latin form of continentia, meaning “self-restraint, moderation”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.4: … solum incolumem passus est esse, sed ita reliquit ornatam ut esset idem monumentum victoriae, mansuetudinis, continentiae, cum homines viderent et quid expugnasset et quibus pepercisset et quae reliquisset: tantum ille honorem habe …

All forms of continentia (declension 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.