contineo Latin · revision 5130

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ten-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔnˈtɪ.ne.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈtiː.ne.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contineō''' (present infinitive continēre, perfect active continuī, supine contentum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|teneō|t1=together|t2=to hold]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The verb ''teneō'' is [[inh|itc-pro|*t(e)nē-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*tn-eh₁-|t=to hold]], a stative present of [[ine-pro|*ten-|t=to stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it of restraint: a character cries that he can no longer be held back.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hold together or connect, to hold in position or fasten, and to keep non-physical things together, to sustain, as a state is held together by its leaders.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to keep someone in a certain state, to retain, to keep in or confine, to restrain or keep under control, and, of places, to enclose or bound.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) From enclosing it came to mean to comprise or contain.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Its participle [[contentus]] “contained, satisfied” and present participle [[continēns]] “holding together” gave [[en|content]] and [[en|continent]].^(Etymonline) It survives in [[it|contenere]], [[fr|contenir]] and [[es|contener]], and [[en|contain]] is recorded about 1300, first “to restrain”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of restraining oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of the pole that holds the yoke and the cart together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the world embracing all things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''contain'' “to restrain” is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To hold together, connect, join.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hold in position, fasten.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To keep together, sustain.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To keep (in a state); to retain.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To keep in, detain, confine.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|restrain]], keep under control.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of places)'' To enclose, bound; to comprise, [[m|en|contain]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[continentia]]

+ * [[continuus]]

+ * [[incontinēns]]

+ * [[contentē]]

+ * [[contentus]]

+ * [[continēns]]

+ * [[continenter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[teneō]]

+ * [[en|contain]]

+ * [[en|content]]

+ * [[en|continent]]

+ * [[en|continue]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}