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Latin
Etymology
From contin(eō) (“to hold together”) + -uus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
continuus (feminine continua, neuter continuum, adverb continuō); first/second-declension adjective
- continuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting
- Synonyms: continuātus, diuturnus
- (temporal) straight, in a row, whole
- Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium ― For two whole years after assuming power
- (temporal) following one after another, successive, succeeding, continuous; i.e. the next , the following
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.734:
- continuāque diē sīdus Hyantis erit
- and on the next day, the asterism of Hyas will be .
(See: Hyas; Hyades.)
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.720:
- continuā Delphīn nocte videndus erit
- On the following night, the Dolphin will be visible.
(See: Delphinus.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “continuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “continuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- continuus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- continuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)