continu
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kunˈti.nu/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu/
Adjective
continu (feminine contínua, masculine plural continus, feminine plural contínues)
- continuous
Derived terms
- contínuament
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French continu, from Old French [Term?], from Latin continuus. Originally appearing in Dutch as an adverb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔn.tiˈny/
continu (file) - Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu
- Rhymes: -y
Adverb
continu
- continuously
Adjective
continu (not comparable)
- continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)
Inflection
| Inflection of continu | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | continu | |||
| inflected | continue | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | continu | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | continue | ||
| n. sing. | continu | |||
| plural | continue | |||
| definite | continue | |||
| partitive | continu's | |||
Derived terms
- continuatie
- continueren
- continuïteit
- continuüm
Descendants
- → Indonesian: kontinu
French
Etymology
From Old French continu, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ti.ny/
Audio (file)
Adjective
continu (feminine continue, masculine plural continus, feminine plural continues)
- continuous, uninterrupted [from 1306]
- Antonym: discontinu
- 1933, Gaussen, Henri, 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.
Derived terms
- basse continue
- boîte de vitesses à variation continue
- continûment
- courant continu
- en continu
Further reading
- “continu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Attested at least as early as 1303, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Adjective
continu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular continue)
- continuous; without pauses or gaps
- (medicine, of a fever) steady; not variable
Descendants
- French: continu