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Feb 16, 2022 · Carmen E. Lamas’s new book, The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (2021), argues that reading nineteenth-century Cuban and Cuban migrant writing from the vantage point of Latino studies—rather than of US American or Latin American studies—provides both a truer account of how ...
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəm/, /-(j)ɪu̯əm/
Noun
continuum (plural continuums or continua) 1. A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other. 1.1. 2014, Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sorensen, Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words: 1.1.1. So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two...
Etymology
From English continuum.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈkontinu.um/, [ˈko̞n̪t̪iˌnu.um] 2. Syllabification(key): con‧ti‧nu‧um
Noun
continuum 1. (music) continuum (type of electronic instrument)
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ti.ny.ɔm/
Noun
continuum m (plural continuums) 1. continuum
Further reading
1. “continuum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Pronunciation
1. (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.um/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɪnuʊ̃ˑ] 2. (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.um/, [kon̪ˈt̪iːnuːm]
Adjective
continuum 1. inflection of continuus: 1.1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular 1.2. accusative masculine singular
References
1. continuum 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)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin continuum.
Pronunciation
1. Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧um
Noun
continuum m (plural continuuns or continua) 1. continuum (series where neighbouring elements are very similar, but distant elements are very different)
constantly repeated/recurring. successive. next in line. Meta information. A/O - Declension. Forms. Positive. Comparative. Superlative. Example Sentences. p [6,1] Aer continuus terrae est et sic appositus ut statim ibi futurus sit unde illa discesserit. ~ Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales II.
May 4, 2021 · To recover this continuum of Latinidad, which is neither confined to the US or Latin American nation states nor located primarily within them, is to recover forgotten histories of the hemisphere, and to find new ways of seeing the past as we have understood it.
- Carmen Lamas
Find continuum (Noun) in the Latin Online Dictionary with English meanings, all fabulous forms & inflections and a conjugation table: continuum, continui, continuo, continuum, continua, continuorum
Feb 3, 2024 · continuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting. Synonyms: continuātus, diuturnus. ( temporal) straight, in a row, whole. Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium ― For two whole years after assuming power.
Mar 16, 2018 · genus of leguminous shrubs, 1731, coined in Modern Latin (1619) from Latin mimus "mime" (see mime (n.)) + -osa, adjectival suffix (fem. of -osus). So called because some species (including the common Sensitive Plant) fold leaves when touched, seeming to mimic animal behavior.
