ad infinitum

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English

WOTD – 14 March 2016

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ad infinitum

The infinity symbol

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad infinitum (“to infinity”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæd ɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪtəm
Hyphenation: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.
- 1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3:
  The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!

Translations

endlessly

Bulgarian: до безкра́йност (bg) (do bezkrájnost), безкра́йно (bg) (bezkrájno)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無限制 / 无限制 (zh) (wú xiànzhì), 無休止地 / 无休止地 (wú xiūzhǐ de), 不休 (zh) (bùxiū), 不斷地 / 不断地 (zh) (bùduàn de), 不已 (zh) (bùyǐ)
Czech: do nekonečna
Dutch: in oneindigheid, voor altijd
Finnish: ikuisesti (fi), loputtomasti, loputtomiin
French: à l’infini (fr)
German: endlos (de), ad infinitum (de)
Greek: επ' άπειρον (el) (ep' ápeiron)
Hindi: निरवधि (hi) (niravdhi)
Hungarian: végtelenségig, vég nélkül
Japanese: 無限に (ja) (むげんに, mugen ni), 際限なく (ja) (さいげんなく, saigen naku)
Korean: 영구히 (yeongguhi)
Latin: ad īnfīnītum
Norwegian: i all uendelighet, uten slutt
Polish: nieskończenie (pl), do nieskończoności
Portuguese: ad infinitum (pt), infinitamente (pt)
Russian: бесконе́чно (ru) (beskonéčno), до бесконе́чности (ru) (do beskonéčnosti)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бесконачно, инфинитивно, бескрајност, до бескрајности, безгранично, неодређено

Roman: beskonačno (sh), infinitivno, beskrajno (sh), do beskrajnosti, bezgranično (sh), neodređeno (sh)
Spanish: al infinito, indefinidamente, sinfín (es)
Swedish: i all oändlighet, utan slut
Tagalog: walang hanggan, walang hangganan
Vietnamese: vô cùng (vi)

Latin

Alternative forms

in īnfīnītō, in īnfīnītum

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ad in.fiːˈniː.tum/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad in.fiˈni.tum/,

Adverb

ad īnfīnītum (not comparable)

to or till infinity, to an unlimited extent, without restriction, everywhere, at pleasure

Descendants

→ English: ad infinitum (learned)
→ Portuguese: ad infinitum (learned)

References

“in-fīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
infīnītus ¶4 in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “814/3”
“infīnītus ¶2” on page 900/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfinītum.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈad ĩˈfĩ.ni.tũ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈad ĩˈfi.ni.tũ/

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

ad infinitum; endlessly
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sempre

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