continu
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin continuus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
continu (feminine contínua, masculine plural continus, feminine plural contínues)
Derived termsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French continu, from Old French [Term?], from Latin continuus. Originally appearing in Dutch as an adverb.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
continu
AdjectiveEdit
continu (not comparable)
- continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)
InflectionEdit
| 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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: kontinu
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French continu, borrowed from Latin continuus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
continu (feminine singular 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 termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “continu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Attested at least as early as 1303, borrowed from Latin continuus.
AdjectiveEdit
continu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular continue)
- continuous; without pauses or gaps
- (medicine, of a fever) steady; not variable
DescendantsEdit
- French: continu