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continerentur

continerentur is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive subjunctive.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.11.5: priores, quod abesse a periculo viderentur neque ulla necessitate neque imperio continerentur, exaudito clamore perturbatis ordinibus omnes in fuga sibi praesidium ponerent.

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.