1. contĭnŭō — Lewis & Short
contĭnŭō, adv., v. continuus
I fin. 2.
The corpus record — Latin
continuo
continuo · adv
fin. 2
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Where it lives
- Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 2 · 94.79/10k
- Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
- De Inventione 81 · 24.46/10k
- De Otio 3 · 15.3/10k
- Topica 7 · 10.22/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
- Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
- Georgicon 12 · 8.48/10k
- Vitellius 2 · 8.31/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
- Epidicus 5 · 7.68/10k
- Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2 · 7.53/10k
Densest 12 of 180 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. contĭnŭo — Lewis & Short
contĭnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.continuus.
I Act., to join together in uninterrupted succession, to make continuous.
A In space, to join one with another, to connect, unite (class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in pass.); constr. with the dat. or (more freq.) absol.
(a) With dat.:
(aër) mari continuatus et junctus est,Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 117:
aedificia moenibus,Liv. 1, 44, 4:
regnum Alyattei Campis Mygdoniis,Hor. C. 3, 16, 42:
latus lateri,Ov. A. A. 1, 496.—
Medial: Suionibus Sitonum gentes continuantur,border upon, are next to, Tac. G. 45 fin.—
(b) Absol.:
binas aut amplius domos,to erect in rows, Sall. C. 20, 11:
fundos in agro Casinati optimos et fructuosissimos,to buy, acquire contiguous plots of ground, Cic. Agr. 3, 4, 14 (v. the pass. in connection); cf.:
latissime agrum,id. ib. 2, 26, 70;
and agros,Liv. 34, 4, 9:
pontem,Tac. A. 15, 9:
domus, quā Palatium et Maecenatis hortos continuaverat,id. ib. 15, 39:
verba,to connect together in a period, Cic. de Or. 3, 37, 149; cf.:
verba verbis aut nomina nominibus (just before: cadentia similiter jungere),Quint. 9, 4, 43.—Medial:
quae (atomi) cohaerescunt inter se et aliae alias adprehendentes continuantur,hang together, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54.—
B Of time and objects relating to it, to join, connect together, to continue uninterruptedly, to do successively one thing after another:
Cassius die ac nocte continuato itinere ad eum pervenit,Caes. B. C. 3, 36; 3, 11:
nuntius diem noctemque itinere continuato ingentem attulit terrorem,Liv. 26, 9, 6:
continens die ac nocte proelium,id. 4, 22, 5; cf.:
perpotationem biduo duabusque noctibus,Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 145:
diem noctemque potando,Tac. G. 22; cf.:
theatro dies totos,id. A. 14, 20:
magistratum,Sall. J. 37, 2; cf. Liv. 38, 33, 1:
praeturam ei,i. e. to give it to him immediately after the Ædileship, Vell. 2, 91, 3: dapes. Hor. S. 2, 6, 108:
febrem,Cels. 3, 5:
prope funera,Liv. 1, 46, 9:
fatigatio continuati laboris,Curt. 7, 11, 17:
quae (libertas) usque ad hoc tempus honoribus, imperiis ... continuata permansit,Cic. Fl. 11, 25.—Poet.:
aliquos ferro,to slay one after another, Stat. Th. 9, 292; cf.:
aliquos hastis,id. ib. 12, 745. —In pass. with dat.:
hiemi continuatur hiems,Ov. P. 1, 2, 26; so,
paci externae confestim discordia domi,Liv. 2, 54, 2:
damna damnis,Tac. Agr. 41.—
II Neutr., to continue, last (rare):
febres ita ut coepere continuant,Cels. 3, 3; 2, 4; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 233; 18, 35, 87, § 362; 20, 5, 17, § 35.— Hence, *
1 contĭnŭanter, adv., continuously, in uninterrupted succession (opp. carptim), Aug. Retract. 1, 24.—
2 contĭ-nŭātē, adv., in uninterrupted succession, one after another, Paul. ex Fest. p. 315, 5; Fest. p. 314, 32 Müll.; cf. Fronto, Diff. Verb. p. 2195 P.
In the wild
- continua Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.1.5
- continuo Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.18.21
- continua Tacitus, Annales 12.p52
- continuo Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.41
- con Cicero, Brutus 24.p1
- continuo Propertius, Elegiae 1.20.1
6 of 876 attestations shown.
Where it came from
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