continu

Borrowed from Latin continuus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

continu (feminine contínua, masculine plural continus, feminine plural contínues)

1. continuous

• contínuament

Borrowed from Middle French continu, from Old French , from Latin continuus. Originally appearing in Dutch as an adverb.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔn.tiˈny/

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• Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu
• Rhymes: -y

continu

1. continuously

continu (not comparable)

1. continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)

• continuatie
• continueren
• continuïteit
• continuüm

• → Indonesian: kontinu

Inherited from Old French continu, borrowed from Latin continuus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ti.ny/

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continu (feminine continue, masculine plural continus, feminine plural continues)

1. continuous, uninterrupted

   Antonym: discontinu

   • 1933, Henri Gaussen, Géographie des Plantes [Geography of Plants], Armand Colin, page 55:

     Des communications fréquentes, sinon continues, existaient à l’Éocène entre les contrées du Sud de l’Europe et le continent africain.

     Frequent, if not continuous, contact existed during the Eocene between the regions of southern Europe and the African continent.

• “continu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Attested at least as early as 1303, borrowed from Latin continuus.

continu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular continue)

1. continuous; without pauses or gaps
2. (medicine, of a fever) steady; not variable

• French: continu