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continent
continent /kon.tiˈnent/
noun#5756 most common
Also: landmass
Example sentences
Africa este un continent.
Africa is a continent.
Europa este un continent mic, dar foarte populat.
Europe is a small continent, but very populated.
Am vizitat deja trei continente diferite.
I have already visited three different continents.
Fiecare continent are propriul climat și propria faună.
Each continent has its own climate and its own fauna.
Continentul african este renumit pentru diversitatea sa culturală și naturală.
The African continent is renowned for its cultural and natural diversity.
Deriva continentelor a modelat, de-a lungul a milioane de ani, forma actuală a continentelor.
Continental drift has shaped, over millions of years, the current shape of the continents.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | continent | continente |
| Genitive | continentului | continentelor |
| Accusative | continent | continente |
| Vocative | continent | continente |
Word family
continentalcontinental
intercontinentalintercontinental
subcontinentsubcontinent
continentalitatecontinentality, a climate marked by extreme temperature swings
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "continent" from French and Latin during the nineteenth-century modernization of the language. The Latin source is "continens, continentis", the present participle of "continere", meaning to hold together. The idea is a landmass held together as a single body, as opposed to islands.
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