continens

Present active participle of contineō (“I hold together, contain”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ti.nens/, [ˈkɔn.tɪ.nẽːs]

continēns (genitive continentis); third declension

1. limiting, enclosing
2. bordering, neighboring
3. connected, continuous, unbroken
4. continual, uninterrupted

Third declension.

• continenter
• contineō
• continuus

continēns f (genitive continentis); third declension

1. continent
2. mainland
3. (figuratively, rhetoric) The primary point.

Third declension.

• English: continent
• Russian: контине́нт (kontinént)
• Spanish: continente

continēns m, f, n (genitive continentis); third declension

1. holding together, containing
2. (places) enclosing, bounding, limiting

Third declension.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• continens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• continens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• continens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• continens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the continent: (terra) continens (B. G. 5. 8. 2)
    
  • to have the same boundaries; to be coterminous: continentem esse terrae or cum terra (Fam. 15. 2. 2)
    
  • to behave with moderation: moderatum, continentem esse