continu
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
continu (feminine contínua, masculine plural continus, feminine plural contínues)
Derived terms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French continu, from Old French [Term?], from Latin continuus. Originally appearing in Dutch as an adverb.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
continu
Adjective[edit]
continu (not comparable)
- continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)
Inflection[edit]
| 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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: kontinu
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French continu, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
continu (feminine continue, masculine plural continus, feminine plural continues)
- continuous, uninterrupted [from 1306]
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “continu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested at least as early as 1303, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Adjective[edit]
continu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular continue)
- continuous; without pauses or gaps
- (medicine, of a fever) steady; not variable
Descendants[edit]
- French: continu
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