A fellow contending with the adjectival content wrote us when he realized that making a connection between the adjective content meaning "feeling or manifesting satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation;" and the noun content, naming "something contained;" or "substance; gist, significance" might be a less contentious matter than expected. (来源：英语麦当劳－英语学习门户 EnglishCN.com)

That’s because the noun content has an ancestor in the Latin word meaning to "hold together; hold in" (con means "with; together; jointly;" and tenere means "to hold"); and—no need to hold your breath—so does the adjective content. To us, it’s pretty satisfying to think that holding together equates with contentment.

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Just as satisfying is the story behind contentious. While content and content come from the Latin contenere, contention comes from a different Latin word, contendere, meaning "to stretch vigorously; strive." Surely, vigorous stretching could be considered a sort of contentiousness, a perverse and often wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes. Or at least, that is what we would contend. (来源：英语论坛 http://bbs.englishcn.com)