contento

contento

1. neuter of contentu

• contente

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

• IPA^(key): [konˈtentʊ]

contento (feminine 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

contento m (plural contentos)

1. satisfaction

• “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.

contento (plural contentos)

1. content, contents (that which something contains)

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

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

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

• contentamente
• cornuto contento

contento m (plural contenti)

1. (obsolete) that which is contained; content

   Synonym: contenuto

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), 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,

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

contento m (plural contenti)

1. (literary) satisfaction, happiness

   Synonyms: contentezza, soddisfazione

   Antonyms: insoddisfazione, scontento

• contentino

From Latin contemptus (“scorn, contempt”).

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

contento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contentare

• connetto

contentō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of contentus

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: con‧ten‧to

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

1. Archaic form of contente.

contento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contentar

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

• Audio (Colombia):

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

Borrowed from Latin contentus.[1]

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

1. content
2. happy, glad

   Synonyms: feliz, alegre

3. pleased, chuffed (British)
4. satisfied

   Synonym: satisfecho

contento m (plural contentos)

1. contentment; gladness

   Synonyms: alegría, contentura

contento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contentar

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