contento

contento

See also: Contento, contentó, and contentò

Asturian

Adjective

contento

1. neuter of contentu

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Galician

Alternative forms

• contente

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin contentus. Cognate with Portuguese contente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [konˈtentʊ]

Adjective

contento m (feminine singular contenta, masculine plural contentos, feminine plural contentas)

1. content, happy

   Synonym: ledo

   Antonyms: infeliz, triste

2. satisfied, glad, pleased

   Synonym: satisfeito

3. (figurative) tipsy

   Synonyms: alegre, peneque

Noun

contento m (plural contentos)

1. satisfaction

References

• “contento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “content” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “contento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “contento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “contento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Interlingua

Noun

contento (plural contentos)

1. content, contents (that which something contains)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈtɛn.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: con‧tèn‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin contentus, perfect passive participle of contineō (“to contain”), whence Italian contenere.

Adjective

contento (feminine contenta, masculine plural contenti, feminine plural contente, superlative contentissimo)

1. satisfied, pleased

   Synonyms: appagato, (literary) pago, soddisfatto

   Antonyms: deluso, dispiaciuto, inappagato, insoddisfatto, scontento

2. content, happy

   Synonyms: allegro, felice, giocondo, gioioso, ilare, lieto

   Antonyms: abbattuto, afflitto, infelice, malinconico, mesto, scontento, triste

Derived terms

• contentamente
• cornuto contento

Noun

contento m (plural contenti)

1. (obsolete) that which is contained; content

   Synonym: contenuto

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto II, lines 76–78:

     ‘O donna di virtù sola per cui ¶ l'umana spezie eccede ogni contento ¶ di quel ciel c'ha minor li cerchi sui […] ’

     O Lady of virtue, thou alone through whom the human race exceedeth all contained within the heaven that has the lesser circles,

Etymology 2

Deverbal from contentare (“to satisfy”) +‎ -o.

Noun

contento m (plural contenti)

1. (literary) satisfaction, happiness

   Synonyms: contentezza, soddisfazione

   Antonyms: insoddisfazione, scontento

Derived terms

• contentino

Etymology 3

From Latin contemptus (“scorn, contempt”).

Noun

contento m (plural contenti)

1. (obsolete) scorn, contempt

   Synonyms: biasimo, disdegno, (literary) dispetto, (literary) dispregio, disprezzo, disistima, esecrazione, (literary) spregio, (literary) sprezzo

   Antonyms: apprezzamento, considerazione, (literary) pregio, stima

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

contento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contentare

Anagrams

• connetto

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Latin

Participle

contentō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of contentus

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Portuguese

Adjective

contento (feminine contenta, masculine plural contentos, feminine plural contentas)

1. Archaic form of contente.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contentus.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈtento/ [kõn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: con‧ten‧to

Adjective

contento (feminine contenta, masculine plural contentos, feminine plural contentas)

1. content, happy
2. satisfied, glad, pleased, chuffed (British)

Derived terms

• contentura
• más contento que unas castañuelas

 

Related terms

• descontento
• contentar

Noun

contento m (plural contentos)

1. contentment; gladness

   Synonyms: alegría, contentura

Verb

contento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contentar

References

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

• “contento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014