content · adjective, noun, interjection, verb1
- Latin · derived fromcontentus“contained; satisfied”
- Middle English · inherited fromcontenten“to satisfy”
- English todaycontent
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
content · adjective, noun2
- Latin · derived fromcontentus
- Middle English · inherited fromcontent
- English todaycontent
From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.