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by yesenadam
1930 days ago
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Hmm funny, but that link hijacked my back button. As I clicked BACK for the third time, I imagined the programmer of the page looking contentedly down on me from above, with tented fingers... Ok so surely "contented" isn't anything to do with finger tents?! ... Apparently it's from the Latin contentus, from continere "to hold together, enclose".[1] "Sense connection of "contained" and "satisfied" probably is that the contented person's desires are bound by what he or she already has" That does sound more than accidentally related to hand-tenting! You are actually displaying your enclosure, your container. https://www.etymonline.com/word/content [1] Spanish has "contener" – to contain, include, control, repress, hold back. Corresponding to contentus is "contenido" – contained, held back, (noun) contents, (adj) reserved, restrained. |
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