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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la teneō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔnˈtɪ.nu.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈtiː.nu.us]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''continuus''' (feminine continua, neuter continuum, adverb continuō); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[contineō]] “to hold together” with the suffix [[-uus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus, of things coming in succession.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant uninterrupted, unremitting, continuous, of time unbroken, as Livy's continuous days, of speech continued, and lasting, constantly recurring, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Of space it meant unbroken, as in Horace, joined to something, as Ovid's Leucas joined to the mainland, and forming an indivisible whole.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also meant successive, as Plautus' days, and next in time or position.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein says ''continuus'' is what hangs together without a break, [[perpetuus]] what reaches its end without stopping.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Medieval Latin it meant continuous, forming a whole, and of birds' feet webbed.^(DMLBS) It survives in French ''continu'' and Italian ''continuo''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|continuous]] came in the 1640s, and [[en|continue]] from its verb ''continuāre'' in the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of successive days.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of recurring things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of unbroken time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1640s – English ''continuous'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Uninterrupted, [[m|en|continuous]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Lasting; incessant.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Unbroken in space; adjoining.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Successive.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Next (in time or place).^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[continuitās]]
+ * [[continuō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[contineō]]
+ * [[perpetuus]]
+ * [[en|continuous]]
+ * [[en|continue]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}