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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈti.no.vo/
- Rhymes: -inovo
- Hyphenation: con‧tì‧no‧vo
Etymology 1
Obsolete form of continuo.
Adjective
continovo (feminine continova, masculine plural continovi, feminine plural continove)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of continuo
early 14th century [4th century–7th century], chapter LXIV (chapter 64), Vita di S. Maccario romano, in Domenico Cavalca, transl., Vite de’ santi padri, translation of Vitae patrum (in Late Latin); republished as Volgarizzamento delle vite de’ ss. padri, volume 3, Milan: Giovanni Silvestri, 1830, page 192:per sette giorni continovi non mangiammo nè bevemmo, nè lume vedemmo- [per sette giorni continovi non mangiammo né bevemmo, né lume vedemmo]
- For seven continuous days, we did not eat or drink, nor we saw any light
c. 1342, Giovanni Boccaccio, Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine, published 1520, page xxxxii-R:impuonete regola qual ui pare, ſicura: che quella con paſſo continouo che uoi direte ſequiro iſtudioſo.- [impuonete regola qual vi pare, sicura: ché quella, con passo continovo, che voi direte sequirò istudioso]
- Set whatever rule you wish, confident, for I will follow whatever one you say attentively, with continuous pace.
1605 [1304–1309], “De’ luoghi abitevoli da eleggere: delle corti, e case, e di quelle cose, le quali sono necessarie all’abitazion della villa, e prima del conoscimento della bontà del luogo abitevole in comune [First book - 1. Of habitable places to choose; of courtyards, and houses, and the things which are necessary to inhabit the countryside; and before , of the knowledge of the common habitable area]” (chapter 1), Libro primo, in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell’agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture], Florence: published by Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 4:Imperciocchè ’l coltivamento della villa richiede, per li suoi continovi affanni, e fatiche, spezialmente fortezza degli abitanti […]- Since the cultivation of the countryside highly requires, due to its continuous trials and tribulations, strength of the inhabitants
1731, Domenico Maria Manni, Sermoni di S. Agostino, Primo Sermone, page 7:Bisogna adunque, che l’amore faccia il servigio essere continovo- Thus, it's necessary that Love make the service be continuous
Etymology 2
Obsolete form of continuo.
Adverb
continovo
- (obsolete) Alternative form of continuo
14th century, Bindo Bonichi, Rime; republished as “Canzone quarta”, in Rime di Bindo Bonichi da Siena edite ed inedite (Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite o rare dal secolo XIII al XVII; 82), Bologna: Gaetano Romagnoli, 1867, page 35:All’esser bon bisogna
Perfetta conoscenza
Et pura coscïenza
Et le virtù continovo operare- A good being needs perfect knowledge and pure conscience, and to continuously practice virtues
c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, page 234:Istette dunque fin che il mondo chiuso
Tenne Apollo di luce Palemone
Dentro nel tempio sagrato rinchiuso
Continovo ’n divota orazione- Thus he, Palemone, stayed locked inside the sacred temple, continuously in a devout prayer, as long as Apollo kept the world without light
1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro dodecimo [Twelfth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991:E a dì V di novembre arrivarono alla terra e villata di Bovolento presso di Padova a VII miglia, e in sul gran canale del fiume dell’Alice che va a Chioggia, per avere da Vinegia e da Chioggia continovo vittuaglia e libero cammino e andamento.- And on the 5th of November they arrived on the land of Bovolenta, about 7 miles from Padua, and on the great canal of the river Adige going to Chioggia, in order to continuously have provisions, and free passage through Venice and Chioggia.