continuus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- continuous, uninterrupted, successive
- (temporal) straight, in a row, whole (Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium... For two whole years after assuming power...)
Etymology
Suffix from Latin contineo (hold together).
Origin
Latin
contineo
Gloss
hold together
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- continuous English
- contineo Latin
- continuitas Latin
- continuo Latin
- teneō Latin
- continuamente Italian
- continuo Italian
- continu French
- continuel French
- continuité French
- continuamente Spanish, Castilian
- continuo Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- contino Portuguese
- continuamente Portuguese
- contínuo Portuguese
- continuel Middle English
- kontinuitet Danish
- continu Old French
- continuel Old French
- continueus Old French
- continu Catalan, Valencian
- contínuament Catalan, Valencian
- continuamente Galician
- continuo Galician
- continuu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- încontinuu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- continnuel Norman
- continuité Middle French