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contineret

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

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.3.6: sese idcirco ab suis discedere atque ad eum venire noluisse, quo facilius civitatem in officio contineret, ne omnis nobilitatis discessu plebs propter imprudentiam laberetur:

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.