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ad_infinitum

ad infinitum

English

The infinity symbol

Adverb

ad infinitum ‎(not comparable)

Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.

Translations

endlessly

Bulgarian: до безкра́йност (bg) ‎(do bezkrájnost), безкра́йно (bg) ‎(bezkrájno)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無限制 (zh), 无限制 (zh) ‎(wú xiànzhì), 無休止地, 无休止地 ‎(wú xiūzhǐ de), 不休 (zh) ‎(bùxiū), 不斷地 (zh), 不断地 (zh) ‎(bùduàn de), 不已 (zh) ‎(bùyǐ)
Czech: do nekonečna
Dutch: in oneindigheid, voor altijd, in oneindigheid, voor altijd
Finnish: ikuisesti (fi), loputtomasti, loputtomiin
French: à l'infini (fr)
German: endlos (de), ad infinitum (de)
Greek: επ' άπειρον ‎(ep' ápeiron)
Hungarian: végtelenségig, vég nélkül
Japanese: 無限に (ja) ‎(むげんに, mugen ni), 際限なく ‎(さいげんなく, saigen naku)
Korean: 영구히 ‎(yeong-guhi)

Latin: ad īnfīnītum
Norwegian: i all uendelighet, uten slutt
Polish: nieskończenie (pl), do nieskończoności
Portuguese: ad infinitum (pt), infinitamente (pt)
Russian: бесконе́чно (ru) ‎(beskonéčno), до бесконе́чности (ru) ‎(do beskonéčnosti)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: бесконачно, инфинитивно, бескрајност, до бескрајности, безгранично, неодређено

Roman: beskonačno, infinitivno, beskrajno, do beskrajnosti, bezgranično, neodređeno
Spanish: al infinito, indefinidamente, sinfín (es)
Swedish: i all oändlighet, utan ****
Tagalog: walang hanggan, walang hangganan
Vietnamese: vô cùng (vi)

Latin

Alternative forms

in īnfīnītō, in īnfīnītum

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ad in.fiːˈniː.tum/, [ad ĩː.fiːˈniː.tũ]

Adverb

ad īnfīnītum ‎(not comparable)

to or till infinity, to an unlimited extent, without restriction, everywhere, at pleasure

Descendants

English: ad infinitum
Portuguese: ad infinitum

References

in infinito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “infīnītus ¶4”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 814/3.
“infīnītus ¶2” on page 900/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

ad infinitum; endlessly

Synonyms

infinitamente