continuant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →continuo, continuare, continuavi, continuatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
make continuous (space/time); put in line, join (in succession), connect, unite;; bridge (gap); extend/prolong/draw out/last/renew; keep on; do without pause;; adjourn;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...necessarius est, hune tamen si per diem noctemque continues, mors erit. Multum interest, remittas aliquid an soluas. Legum..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...autem id demum quod in proximo est: verba continuant, haec vultu interrito, nulla tardati verecundia proferunt: non multum..."
