continu
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcontinu (feminine contínua, masculine plural continus, feminine plural contínues)
Derived terms
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French continu, from Old French [Term?], from Latin continuus. Originally appearing in Dutch as an adverb.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editcontinu
Adjective
editcontinu (not comparable)
- continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)
Declension
editDeclension of continu | ||||
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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
editDescendants
edit- → Indonesian: kontinu
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French continu, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcontinu (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
editFurther reading
edit- “continu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editAttested at least as early as 1303, borrowed from Latin continuus.
Adjective
editcontinu 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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