Contente
Contente is a term found in several Romance languages with meanings tied to satisfaction, happiness, or approval. In French, contente is the feminine form of the adjective content, used to describe someone who is pleased. The masculine form is content; the plural forms are contents (masculine) and contentes (feminine). In Portuguese (and Galician), contente is an adjective meaning pleased or satisfied, with the plural contentes; it is used for both masculine and feminine subjects, though agreement follows the noun it modifies. In Italian, the closest standard form is content(o) for happiness or satisfaction; contentee or contente is not a common standard form, though it can appear in dialects or as a proper name.
Etymology traces contente to the Latin contentus, meaning held together or satisfied, which passed into the
Usage notes: In modern French, the phrase “elle est contente” indicates that a female subject is happy,