continuatio Latin · revision 34307

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la teneō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''continuātiō''' ''f'' (genitive continuātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|continuō|-tiō|t1=to join together, prolong]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Köbler connects it with [[m|la|contineō|t=to hold together]];^(Köbler 2010) de Vaan lists that verb and [[m|la|continuus|t=uninterrupted]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|teneō|t=to hold]], from [[itc-pro|*t(e)nē-]] and [[ine-pro|*tn-eh1-|t=to hold]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(TLL) which advises against a long ''verbōrum continuātiō'', an unbroken run of words;^(OLD 2012) Köbler's earliest source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its classical senses are an unbroken series or connection: Cicero has the ''continuātiō seriēsque rērum'', the succession and series of things, and the unchangeable connection of the eternal order.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Caesar uses it of rain that went on without a break, and Livy of the prolonging of an office, as the tribunate, held again without a break.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In rhetoric it is a period, a sentence of words joined together.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers in Britain use it of continuity in space and time and of the continuation of a history.^(DMLBS) English ''continuation'' came from Old French and directly from Latin in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of continuous rain.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the series of things and of the order of nature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of holding an office again without a break.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English borrows ''continuation''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|prolongation|alt=Prolongation]], [[m|en|continuation]]; the holding of an office without a break.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The fact of being uninterrupted, [[m|en|continuity]]; an unbroken succession.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An unbroken stretch; uninterrupted practice.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|period]], a sentence of words joined together.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(philosophy)'' Interconnection, [[m|en|concatenation]] of causes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A continuation or supplement of a history.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[continuus]]

+ * [[contineō]]

+ * [[en|continuation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}