contendo
Galician
Verb
contendo
- gerund of conter
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈtɛn.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛndo
- Hyphenation: con‧tèn‧do
Verb
contendo
- first-person singular present indicative of contendere
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with, together”) + tendō (“stretch, extend; contend”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈten.doː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈten.do/, [kon̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
contendō (present infinitive contendere, perfect active contendī, supine contentum); third conjugation
- I hurry
- I stretch, draw tight, make taut, strain.
- I place together in comparison, compare, contrast.
- (music) I tune (by stretching the strings).
- (of weapons) I shoot, hurl, dart, throw.
- (of places) I extend, reach, stretch.
- (with infinitive) I exert myself vigorously to do something, apply myself with zeal to, go to.
- (in auctions) I vie with in bidding, bid against.
- (with accusative or infinitive) I assert, affirm earnestly, maintain or contend energetically.
- (intransitive) I dispute, fight, contend against, compete, vie with.
- (intransitive, often with ab) I demand, ask, solicit, entreat, beg earnestly, seek to gain.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I exert, pursue or strive for eagerly, strain eagerly, stretch.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I seek to arrive at, march, journey hastily to, hasten, press forward, go, advance rapidly.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of contendō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | contendō | contendis | contendit | contendimus | contenditis | contendunt |
| imperfect | contendēbam | contendēbās | contendēbat | contendēbāmus | contendēbātis | contendēbant | |
| future | contendam | contendēs | contendet | contendēmus | contendētis | contendent | |
| perfect | contendī | contendistī | contendit | contendimus | contendistis | contendērunt, contendēre | |
| pluperfect | contenderam | contenderās | contenderat | contenderāmus | contenderātis | contenderant | |
| future perfect | contenderō | contenderis | contenderit | contenderimus | contenderitis | contenderint | |
| passive | present | contendor | contenderis, contendere | contenditur | contendimur | contendiminī | contenduntur |
| imperfect | contendēbar | contendēbāris, contendēbāre | contendēbātur | contendēbāmur | contendēbāminī | contendēbantur | |
| future | contendar | contendēris, contendēre | contendētur | contendēmur | contendēminī | contendentur | |
| perfect | contentus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | contentus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | contentus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | contendam | contendās | contendat | contendāmus | contendātis | contendant |
| imperfect | contenderem | contenderēs | contenderet | contenderēmus | contenderētis | contenderent | |
| perfect | contenderim | contenderīs | contenderit | contenderīmus | contenderītis | contenderint | |
| pluperfect | contendissem | contendissēs | contendisset | contendissēmus | contendissētis | contendissent | |
| passive | present | contendar | contendāris, contendāre | contendātur | contendāmur | contendāminī | contendantur |
| imperfect | contenderer | contenderēris, contenderēre | contenderētur | contenderēmur | contenderēminī | contenderentur | |
| perfect | contentus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | contentus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | contende | — | — | contendite | — |
| future | — | contenditō | contenditō | — | contenditōte | contenduntō | |
| passive | present | — | contendere | — | — | contendiminī | — |
| future | — | contenditor | contenditor | — | — | contenduntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | contendere | contendisse | contentūrum esse | contendī | contentum esse | contentum īrī | |
| participles | contendēns | — | contentūrus | — | contentus | contendendus, contendundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| contendendī | contendendō | contendendum | contendendō | contentum | contentū | ||
Synonyms
- (demand): adfecto, peto, repeto, prehenso, efflagito, exigo, exoro
- (strive): lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, appetō, temptō, affectō, adnītor, labōrō, tendō, quaerō, īnsequor, studeō, ēnītor, pugnō, mōlior, perīclitor, nītor, spectō
- (fight): lūctor, repugnō, pugnō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, serō, dēcertō
- (compare): comparō, aequō, cōnferō
- (affirm): affirmō, firmō, aiō, arguō, fīgō
- (dispute): dēcertō, certō
- (seek): requīrō, quaerō, studeō, spectō, petō, appetō, quaerō, affectō, cupiō, concupiō, expetō, dēstinō, sitiō, aveō, voveō, circumspiciō, tendō
Derived terms
- contentē
- contentiō
- contentus
Related terms
- attendō
- contentiōsē
- contentiōsus
- dētendō
- distendō
- extendō
- intendō
- obtendō
- ostendō
- pertendō
- portendō
- praetendō
- prōtendō
- retendō
- subtendō
- tendō
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Central Italian: contennere
- Italian: contendere ⇒ contesa
- Sicilian: cuntènniri
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Franco-Provençal: countent, countentin
- Old French: contendre ⇒ acontendre, recontendre, contenderie
- Middle French: contendre ⇒ contendant, contentif
- → Middle English: contenden
- English: contend
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: contendre
- Old Occitan: contendre, contener ⇒ conten, contenda, contena
- ⇒ Béarnese: countendè (“joint territory subject to disputes”)
- Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: contender ⇒ contenda
- Spanish: contender ⇒ contienda
- Borrowings:
- Proto-Brythonic: *kunten
- Middle Welsh: kynhen
- Welsh: cynnen ⇒ cynhenna
- Middle Welsh: kynhen
- Proto-Brythonic: *kunten
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “contendere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1103
Further reading
- “contendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnes nervos in aliqua re contendere
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnibus viribusor nervis contendere, ut
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: contendere et laborare, ut
- to contend with some one for the pre-eminence: contendere cum aliquo de principatu (Nep. Arist. 1)
- to change one's route and march towards..: averso itinere contendere in...
- to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelio equestri contendere
- to row hard: remis contendere
- (ambiguous) to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse
- (ambiguous) to be satisfied with a little: paucis, parvo contentum esse
- (ambiguous) to be content with 12 per cent at compound interest: centesimis cum anatocismo contentum esse (Att. 5. 21. 12)
- to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnes nervos in aliqua re contendere
Portuguese
Verb
contendo
- gerund of conter