incontinentia
Latin
Etymology
From incontinēns (“incontinent”, literally “not containing”) + -ia, from in- (“not”) + continēns (“containing”).
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
- Catalan: incontinència
- English: incontinence
- French: incontinence
- Italian: incontinenza
- Portuguese: incontinência
- Romanian: incontinență
- Spanish: incontinencia
- → Old Irish: nebchongabthetu (calque)
References
- “incontinentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incontinentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incontinentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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