continuo

continuo (plural continuos)

1. (music) Ellipsis of basso continuo.

From Spanish continuo, ellipsis of hombre continuo (“constant and steadfast man”), from Latin continuus (“constant, continuous”).

continuo (plural continuos)

1. (historical) A member of the personal guard of the medieval and early modern Spanish or Portuguese kings.

• contino

IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.tiˈnu.u]

• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.tiˈnu.o]

continuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of continuar

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continuo m (plural continuos)

1. continuo

• IPA^(key): /konˈtinwo/ [kon̪ˈt̪i.nwʊ]
• Rhymes: -inwo
• Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nuo

Learned borrowing from Latin continuus.

continuo (feminine continua, masculine plural continuos, feminine plural continuas)

1. continuous

• “continuo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

continuo

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of continuar

• continovo (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /konˈti.nu.o/, /konˈti.nwo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -inuo, -inwo
• Hyphenation: con‧tì‧nu‧o, con‧tì‧nuo

Learned borrowing from Latin continuus, derived from contineō (“to hold together”).

continuo (feminine continua, masculine plural continui, feminine plural continue)

1. continuous

   Antonym: discontinuo

• continuo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Learned borrowing from Latin continuō (“at once”).

continuo

1. (obsolete) continuously

   Synonym: continuamente

• continuo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Noun use of the adjective.

continuo m (plural continui)

1. that which has continuity or continuousness
   1. (physics, philosophy) that whose perception cannot be broken down into various distinct elementary perceptions
2. (by extension) a prolonged series
3. (mathematics) continuum (set of real numbers)

   Hypernym: insieme

• continuo³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

continuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of continuare

• incutono

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɪ.nu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtiː.nu.o]

From continuus + -ō.

continuō (present infinitive continuāre, perfect active continuāvī, supine continuātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to join, connect, unite, make continuous

   Synonyms: colligo, illigo, ligo, cōnserō, coniungo, consocio, iungo, contraho, concilio

2. (transitive, time) to follow successively or uninterruptedly or immediately, pursuit

   Synonyms: persequor, sequor, cōnsequor, excipiō, exsequor

3. (transitive) to extend, prolong, lengthen

   Synonyms: extendō, porrigō, prōlongō, prōferō, prōtrahō, trahō, explicō

4. (intransitive) to continue, keep on, do without pause, persist

• English (through Middle French): continue
• Catalan: continuar
• Occitan: contunhar
• French: continuer
• Italian: continuare
• Norman: caontinuaïr (Guernsey), continnuer (Jersey)
• Portuguese: continuar
• Romanian: continua
• Sicilian: cuntinuari
• Spanish: continuar

From continuus + -ō.

continuō (not comparable)

1. immediately, at once
2. from the first

   Synonyms: statim, cōnfestim, īlicō, extemplō, prōtinus

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Evangelium secundum Matthaeum.26.74-75:

     et continuo gallus cantavit. Et recordatus est Petrus verbi Iesu quod dixerat, "priusquam gallus cantet ter me negabis". Et egressus foras ploravit amare.

     (after Peter denies Jesus a third time) And the rooster immediately sang. Peter then remembered what Jesus had said, "before the rooster sings, you will deny me three times." And he went outside, and cried bitterly.

continuō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of continuus

• continuo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “continuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “continuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “continuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to continue one's office for another year: continuare magistratum (Sall. Iug. 37. 2)
    
  • to prolong some one's office for another year: continuare alicui magistratum
    
  • to march without interruption: iter continuare (B. C. 3. 11)
    
• continuo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

continuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of continuar; "I continue"

Borrowed from Latin continuus.

• IPA^(key): /konˈtinwo/ [kõn̪ˈt̪i.nwo]
• Rhymes: -inwo
• Syllabification: con‧ti‧nuo

continuo (feminine continua, masculine plural continuos, feminine plural continuas)

1. (of actions) continual, constant (done or extending without interruption)
2. (of areas) continuous, adjacent (extending from one to another without interruption)
3. (of people) steady, persevering (continuing with one's task without interruption)
4. (of values) continual, nondiscrete (existing in an uninterrupted continuum)

• contino (archaic)

continuo m (plural continuos)

1. unity (an area extending without interruption)
2. (chiefly historical) vassal (a man bound to perpetual service to a king or similar lord, especially as a) man-at-arms or bodyguard
3. (historical) continuo (one of the 100 or so men-at-arms who formed the Spanish and Portuguese kings' perpetual personal guard)
4. (music) continuo (basso continuo)

• continuum, contínuum

• “continuo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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