contenir
French
verb
Definitions
- to contain (To have in)
- to contain, to hold back (control, e.g. a disease, tears), to keep in check (control something that might hurt you, e.g. emotions)
- to hold, to take, to seat (To have a capacity of)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French contenir borrowed from Latin continēre.
Origin
Latin
continēre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- contain English
- containable English
- container English
- containest English
- containeth English
- containment English
- contineo, continēre, contineō Latin
- continere Latin
- contineō Latin
- continēre Latin
- contenere Italian
- contenibile Italian
- contenimento Italian
- contenitore Italian
- contenzione Italian
- contener Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- contenir Old French
- contenir Catalan, Valencian
- conteni Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- conține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kontenar Ido
- cont'nîn Norman
- contẽer Old Portuguese