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continuate

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English

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Etymology

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From the past participle of Latin continuare.

Adjective

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continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)

  1. (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , I.iii.1.2:
      Childish in some, terrible in others; to be derided in one, pitied or admired in another; to him by fits, to a second continuate: and howsoever these symptoms be common and incident to all persons, yet they are the most remarkable, frequent, furious, and violent in melancholy men.
    • c. 1605-08, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 1, scene 1:
      An untirable and continuate goodness.
    • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, [], London: [] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
  2. (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kon.ti.nuˈa.te/, /kon.tiˈnwa.te/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧à‧te, con‧ti‧nuà‧te

Etymology 1

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Verb

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continuate

  1. inflection of continuare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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continuate f pl

  1. feminine plural of continuato

References

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  1. ^ continuiamo, continuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

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Verb

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continuāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of continuō

Spanish

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Verb

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continuate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of continuar combined with te