continuo — Spanish Dictionary

adjective/konˈtinwo/

continual, constant (done or extending without interruption); continuous, adjacent (extending from one to another without interruption); steady, persevering (continuing with one's task without interruption); continual, nondiscrete (existing in an uninterrupted continuum)

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tn̥-eh₁-(ye)-tider. Proto-Italic *tenēō Latin teneō Latin contin(eō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin continuusbor. Spanish continuo Borrowed from Latin continuus.

noun, masculine/konˈtinwo/plural: continuos

unity (an area extending without interruption); vassal (a man bound to perpetual service to a king or similar lord, especially as a) man-at-arms or bodyguard; continuo (one of the 100 or so men-at-arms who formed the Spanish and Portuguese kings' perpetual personal guard); continuo (basso continuo)