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Mar 9, 2021 · For the Latino Continuum embeds layered and complex political and literary contexts and overlooked histories, situated as it is at the crossroads of both hemispheric and transatlantic currents of exchange often effaced by the logic of borders—national, cultural, religious, linguistic, and temporal.
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.
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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)
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The Latino Continuum unfolds over five chapters, in roughly chronological order: each of the first three chapters treats an individual literary figure—Félix Var-ela, Miguel Teurbe Tolón, and Eusebio Guiteras; the final two chapters focus on Martín Morúa Delgado.
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.
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.
