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continuus
continuus
Latin
Adjective
continuus m (feminine continua, neuter continuum); first/second declension
- continuous, uninterrupted, successive
- (temporal) straight, in a row, whole (Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium... For two whole years after assuming power...)
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
Descendants
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “continuus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)