contínuo
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- contino (poetic or obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin continuus. Doublet of continuum.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: con‧tí‧nu‧o
Adjective
[edit]contínuo (feminine contínua, masculine plural contínuos, feminine plural contínuas)
- continuous (without break, cessation, or interruption in time)
- Synonyms: ininterrupto, seguido, sucessivo, continuado, constante
- Antonyms: inconstante, incontínuo, intervalado, descontínuo
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]contínuo m (plural contínuos, feminine contínua, feminine plural contínuas)
- something that is continuous
- office boy
- Synonyms: office boy, estafeta, moço de recados
- 1981, Braz Chediak, director, Bonitinha, mas Ordinária ou Otto Lara Resende, spoken by Edgar (José Wilker):
- E tem mais! Eu sou um ex-contínuo e você é um filho da puta! Seu filho da puta!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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