continuus
Latin
Etymology
From contin(eō) (“to hold together”) + -uus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.us/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɪnuʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.us/, [kon̪ˈt̪iːnuːs]
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 [day], the following [night]
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.734:
- continuāque diē sīdus Hyantis erit
- [...] and on the next day, the asterism of Hyas will be [seen].
(See: Hyas; Hyades.)
- [...] and on the next day, the asterism of Hyas will be [seen].
- continuāque diē sīdus Hyantis erit
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.720:
- continuā Delphīn nocte videndus erit
- On the following night, the Dolphin will be visible.
(See: Delphinus.)
- On the following night, the Dolphin will be visible.
- continuā Delphīn nocte videndus erit
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | continuus | continua | continuum | continuī | continuae | continua | |
| Genitive | continuī | continuae | continuī | continuōrum | continuārum | continuōrum | |
| Dative | continuō | continuō | continuīs | ||||
| Accusative | continuum | continuam | continuum | continuōs | continuās | continua | |
| Ablative | continuō | continuā | continuō | continuīs | |||
| Vocative | continue | continua | continuum | continuī | continuae | continua | |
Derived terms
- continuō (adverb)
- continuō (verb)
Descendants
- Catalan: continu
- → Dutch: continu
- → English: continuous
- Extremaduran: continuu
- French: continu
- → German: kontinuierlich
- Italian: continuo
- → Maltese: kontinwu
- Mirandese: cuntino
- Portuguese: contínuo
- Romanian: continuu
- Sicilian: cuntìnuu
- Spanish: continuo
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)
- an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)