뜻

1. 스트레칭, 긴장, 갈등
2. 경쟁, 경기, 대회, 대항, 시합
3. 노력, 분투
4. 논란, 논쟁, 갈등

1. stretching, tension
2. competition, rivalry
3. struggle, effort
4. controversy, contention

예문

• At illa quanti sunt, animum tamquam emeritis stipendiis libidinis ambitionis, contentionum inimicitiarum, cupiditatum omnium secum esse secumque, ut dicitur, vivere! (M. Tullius Cicero, Cato Maior: de Senectute 63:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 63:1)

• sed cum consili tui bene fortiterque suscepti eum tibi finem statueris quem ipsa fortuna terminum nostrarum contentionum esse voluisset, oro obtestorque te pro vetere nostra coniunctione ac necessitudine proque summa mea in te benevolentia et tua in me pari, te ut nobis, parenti, coniugi tuisque omnibus quibus es fuistique semper carissimus, salvum conserves, incolumitati tuae tuorumque, qui ex te pendent, consulas, quae didicisti quaeque ab adulescentia pulcherrime a sapientissimis viris tradita memoria et scientia comprehendisti, iis hoc tempore utare, quos coniunctos summa benevolentia plurimisque officiis amisisti, eorum desiderium, si non aequo animo, at forti feras. (M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, LIBER SEXTVS: AD A. TORQVATVM ET CETEROS, letter 22 2:2)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 친구들에게 보낸 편지들, , 2:2)

• Ex illo priore genere sunt praeiudicia, rumores, tormenta, tabulae, iusiurandum, testes, in quibus pars maxima contentionum forensium consistit. (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber V 9:1)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 9:1)

• alitur enim atque enitescit velut pabulo laetiore facundia et adsidua contentionum asperitate fatigata renovatur. (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber X 215:2)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 215:2)

• nec ante finis contentionum fuit, cum et tribunum acerrimum auctorem plebes nacta esset et ipsa cum eo pertinacia certaret, quam victi tandem patres ut de conubio ferretur concessere, ita maxime rati contentionem de plebeiis consulibus tribunos aut totam deposituros aut post bellum dilaturos esse, contentamque interim conubio plebem paratam dilectui fore. (Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, Liber IV 64:2)

  (티투스 리비우스, 로마 건국사, 64:2)

유의어 사전

1. Disceptatio, litigatio, and controversia, are dissensions, the settling of which is attempted quietly, and in an orderly way; contentio, altercatio, and jurgium, such as are conducted with passion and vehemence, but which are still confined to words; rixæ (ὀρέκτης) such as, like frays and broils come to blows, or at least threaten to come to blows, and are mid-way between jurgium and pugna. Liv. xxxv. 17. Ex disceptatione altercationem fecerunt. Tac. Hist. i. 64. Jurgia primum, mox rixa inter Batavos et legionarios. Dial. 26. Cassius Severus non pugnat, sed rixatur. 2. Controversia takes place between two parties the moment they place themselves in array on opposite sides; disceptatio, when they commence disputing with each other, in order to arrive at the path of truth, or to discover what is right, but without a hostile feeling; litigatio, when a hostile feeling and a personal interest are at the bottom of the dispute. 3. Contentio would maintain the right against all opponents, and effect its purpose, whatever it may be, by the strenuous exertion of all its faculties; altercatio would not be in debt to its opponent a single word, but have the last word itself; jurgium (from ὀργή) will, without hearkening to another, give vent to its ill-humor by harsh words. Contentio presents the serious image of strenuous exertion; altercatio, the comic image of excessive heat, as in women’s quarrels; jurgium, the hateful image of rude anger. (v. 274.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein