continuus

From contin(eō) (“to hold together”) +‎ -uus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɪ.nu.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪ˈt̪iː.nu.us]

continuus (feminine continua, neuter continuum, adverb continuō); first/second-declension adjective

1. continuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting

   Synonyms: continuātus, diuturnus

2. (temporal) straight, in a row, whole

   Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium ― For two whole years after assuming power

3. (temporal) following one after another, successive, succeeding, continuous; i.e. the next [day], the following [night]
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.734:

     continuāque diē sīdus Hyantis erit

     [...] and on the next day, the asterism of Hyas will be [seen].
     (See: Hyas; Hyades.)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.720:

     continuā Delphīn nocte videndus erit

     On the following night, the Dolphin will be visible.
     (See: Delphinus.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• continuō (adverb)
• continuō (verb)

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• continuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)